BUG 5.1b SR2: No F7 Text Comparison

F7 is supposed to open TC. What it actually does for me right now is sort of 'light up' the 'Display' and 'Annotations/etc' buttons, and then 'turn them off' again the next time I hit F7.
Mac Pro (late 2013) OS 12.6.2
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I am using 5.1b SR-2 and F7 is working correctly on my computer.
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fgh said:
F7 is supposed to open TC. What it actually does for me right now is sort of 'light up' the 'Display' and 'Annotations/etc' buttons, and then 'turn them off' again the next time I hit F7.
It works for me as well. What key are you hitting in conjunction with the F7 key, or do you have the function keys set to operate as function keys (as opposed to being used for volume control, play/pause/scan, monitor brightness, etc.)?
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Tommy Ball said:
What key are you hitting in conjunction with the F7 key
None.
Have you tried on 10.6?
fgh said:What it actually does for me right now is sort of 'light up' the 'Display' and 'Annotations/etc' buttons, and then 'turn them off' again the next time I hit F7.
I just realized that I described that the wrong way. What actually happens is the opposite: the first F7 'turns them off', the second 'turns them on' again.
I also just realized that it does more than that. It toggles the same buttons in another, non-active, tab as well. And it toggles the red/yellow/green buttons at the top left between coloured and grey.
Mac Pro (late 2013) OS 12.6.2
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fgh said:
Have you tried on 10.6?
I don't have access to a machine with 10.6.x. I can make a case and see if someone in Testing can replicate this though.
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fgh said:
F7 is supposed to open TC. What it actually does for me right now is sort of 'light up' the 'Display' and 'Annotations/etc' buttons, and then 'turn them off' again the next time I hit F7.
Testing wasn't able to replicate the behavior on a machine running 10.6.
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fgh said:
I also just realized that it does more than that. It toggles the same buttons in another, non-active, tab as well. And it toggles the red/yellow/green buttons at the top left between coloured and grey.
This sounds like you're toggling the "Use grayscale" Display setting in Accessibility System Preferences (I'm using 10.8; it may have a different name in 10.6). Is there any third-party software installed that might be taking over the F7 hotkey to do this?
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Bradley Grainger (Logos) said:
This sounds like you're toggling the "Use grayscale" Display setting in Accessibility System Preferences
I checked, and that behaves very differently:
- Grayscale makes everything grayscale: menu bar, dock icons, book covers, shortcut bar... F7 only affects the few things I mentioned.
- Grayscale makes the red/yellow/green buttons grayscale, and they stay so upon hovering. F7 makes the red/yellow/green buttons gray -- same gray for all three -- but they show colour upon hovering.
Unfortunately, I rarely use F7, so I have no idea how long this has been going on. I did check shortcuts in System Preferences before the OP, but couldn't find anything there that used F7.
Mac Pro (late 2013) OS 12.6.2
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fgh said:
I checked, and that behaves very differently:
Thanks for investigating. Sorry, I'm at a loss to explain why this is happening.
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I tried a shift-start, and Logos still behaved the same. That ought to rule out interference from other programs.
Is there any chance it can have something to do with my Swedish UI and keyboard? That's the one thing I can think of that separates your 10.6 installation from mine. Though switching to a US keyboard didn't make any difference.
I did happen to have a Search tab visible this time, though, so I can add the observation that the Graph Results and Make Filter buttons are affected, but not the Basic/Bible/etc buttons.
Mac Pro (late 2013) OS 12.6.2
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F7 now works again.
Except, of course, that the popup doesn't respond to the font slider, so I can't actually read anything in it. But it's there.
Is there a case for the font slider issue?
Mac Pro (late 2013) OS 12.6.2
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fgh said:
Is there a case for the font slider issue?
I cannot find a case, but I will create one for the font slider issue. [:)]
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Thanks.
Mac Pro (late 2013) OS 12.6.2
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Unfortunately, Program Scaling (available on Windows) is the way to increase the font size.
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fgh said:
This bug is back.
Do you recall what changed last time this happened and when it stopped? I don't think we changed anything, and as before I can't replicate on 10.9.3.
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I use it very seldom, so I have no idea exactly when it stopped and started working. That makes it next to impossible to guess what changed.
Mac Pro (late 2013) OS 12.6.2
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