Create keyboard shortcuts for self-modifying menu items

By Ricky Buchanan • April 5, 2008

A [...] recent trend, is menu items whose names actually change when the chosen feature is enabled. In the Finder, for instance, the View menu contains Show Path Bar and (depending on your chosen view) Show Status Bar. Select either one, and the menus themselves switch to Hide Path Bar or Hide Status Bar. The advantage of this approach over the check mark is that it’s perfectly clear what happens when you select that menu item. The apparent disadvantage—and one I ran into myself—comes in trying to assign those menu items to a keyboard shortcut.

This is a neat way to solve the tricky problem of creating keyboard shortcuts for menu items whose names change.

Website: Create shortcuts for self-modifying menu items

- Ricky Buchanan

(Via Website: Macworld.)

Categories: Information, Primary Keyboard Users, Users
Tags: create keyboard shortcuts, keyboard shortcuts

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Ricky Buchanan

Ricky Buchanan is 34 years old and the founder and main writer for ATMac. She's bedridden with severe CFS/ME or perhaps a primary mitochondrial disorder - the doctors are not sure. When she's not working on ATMac or her other websites she composes music, listens to audio books, does other disability advocacy, watches TV with her flatmate, and enjoys her cat.

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