Reply to: RE>Function keys

Jack,

In response to your question:
>Why not use F2 or another function key and not try to override a long
>time default? I believe F1 has been used as the help key on Windows for a
>long time. UNIX?

We've used F1 in UNIX this way for more than 10 years. In fact, function keys
on UNIX and VAX OS's have had entirely different uses for much longer than
Windows has been around. So there's no "overriding" of a long time default.
Sure, we could totally change our code, our documentation, and the long time
convention our customers are used to - but it would be much more advantagous
if we could simply defeat the function key operation of Acrobat.

Anyone else know of anything?

Ned Portune
SDRC

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>We've had some problems implementing the Acrobat Reader with our application
>(on UNIX) because of the use of function keys. For example, we want Acrobat
>to stay as the top window to display a tutorial, but we tell users to use the
>F1 key to Zoom in on a graphic in our application's window. Problem is, when
>you pick F1, Acrobat Help comes up.
>
>Does anyone know of a way to disable the function key operation within the
>Acrobat Reader - on UNIX preferably.