I would suggest you add support for a few standard Macintosh keyboard shortcuts. These are so standard that even most games support them; they are practically a built-in feature of the Mac.
Command-S: Save -- i.e. bring up the Save dialog
Command-O: Open -- i.e. bring up the Restore dialog
Command-Q: Quit -- i.e. just Quit -- prompt for a save first. Kind of like if I chose Exit from the ESC menu, except you should quit the program not go to the main menu
Supporting those three shortcuts is really a must for a Mac app.
Thanks for building it for the Mac in the first place -- just trying to help you get in good with the natives.
-Jason
recommend supporting mac-standard keyboard shortcuts
I think it's been brought up (at least for Command Q), part of it may be a limitation of the cross platform development environment.
Command Qs the only one I really want, I just want to CMD-Q bam desktop. However this isn't the first game to not support CMD-Q (or the other normal shortcuts) so I don't give it too much flack, especially given the quality of the game.
I think if they can add the shortcuts they will(as far as I know the devs arn't super familiar with Macs yet so some of these shortcuts may have caught them by surprise, we Mac users have some sort of innate ability/need to navigate our computers solely by keystrokes).
Command Qs the only one I really want, I just want to CMD-Q bam desktop. However this isn't the first game to not support CMD-Q (or the other normal shortcuts) so I don't give it too much flack, especially given the quality of the game.
I think if they can add the shortcuts they will(as far as I know the devs arn't super familiar with Macs yet so some of these shortcuts may have caught them by surprise, we Mac users have some sort of innate ability/need to navigate our computers solely by keystrokes).
Perhaps, in windowed mode, they could also add Command-M for minimize and Command-H for Hide. I haven't done any serious programming on a Mac, so I'm not positive, but I imagine this would be accomplished simply by adding the aforementioned options to the application menu.
But yes, those three suggestions would be excellent. Especially Command-Q.
But yes, those three suggestions would be excellent. Especially Command-Q.
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FWIW, pretty much every Mac game I've played locks out Command-Tab when in full-screen mode. However, many of those games allow you to switch from full-screen to windowed mode on the fly, usually using Command-M (Diablo II) or Command-F (Battle for Wesnoth), so something like that might be a solution.
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