ctrl modifier for key
Hi,
for the last >10 years i have used ctrl-modifiers for keyboard commands in my Max performance patch. With Max 6.1 i am suddenly confronted with system beeps whenever i use key combinations like ctrl-q, ctrl-w, ctrl-e, and so on. The beeps are not issued through Max DSP, but are rather emitted from the system speaker or headphone output.
Is this intended behavior, and how could i get rid of it?
thanks, all the best,
Thomas
oh, i should probably say that this is on a Mac, using OS 10.5.8. Experienced with Max 6.1.5.
I have the same issue. It also happens with alt as well.
I'm on Mac OSX 10.7.5. Max 6.1.5
Thanks
the beep makes performance difficult!! Any way to shut it off?
bump...
5 years later. Is there a solution to this?
Any way to do this for a standalone application?
osascript -e 'set volume alert volume 0'
send this to shell.
Inverting that to previous value is more complicated, because
You need to disable command q , as quitting standalone this way
would prevent it from executing script on closebang or any other
auto - execute on quit script.
And You will need to capture last alert volume value to restore it.
You could simply set it to maximum though :
osascript -e 'set volume alert volume 100'.
or try this to capture alert volume before setting it to 100.
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Disabling command q is also possible, by setting that shortcut
to something meaningless for the standalone app.
You do that in System Preferences - Keyboard Shortcuts
than You make a "Quit" button in standalone to
restore alert volume, and short time after
; max quit message
P.S.
if You dislike using shell compile apple script
set volume alert volume 0
as for example KillAlert.app
and start it using message
;
max launchbrowser file:///Applications/KillAlert.app
i wonder what causes this. it is not a normal bevahiour of an app.
I did find another solution...
create a shortcut with [menubar]
Example
#X item 6 1 MenuItem/1;now, ⌘ + 1 will trigger MenuItem (silently!)
seems logical - good idea.
now if only there would be an easy way how to run off the default shortcuts, so that custom patches can use single letters as input. :)