Is there any way to use a Win pc as a Mac?

[JWalkerPostAudio]

+1 for that. I'm very familiar with the shortcuts on PC and Mac as well.

-Justin

jwalkerpostaudio[at]gmail.com

[tonepad]

In my Editing/Project studio I use MACs ont he right side of the desk and PC on the left. You can train your brain to deal with the minor differences by seperating the physical reality of your workspace like this. The only real difference is in the the 3 bottom left key combos, which I still need to get better at but hasn't created any huge obstacles yet.

Having said this, if Shane comes up with a KB re-map I'd be all over it, sicne I'm sure it would be brilliant.

Learn to be a LEFTY!

[tbkbt]

Just to make it easier for shane, on a PC control is command on the mac, and the windows key is control on the mac(and vice versa - control key on a mac is windows key on windows, and a command hit on mac is a control key on windows), so basically the control key swaps with the operating system key if you get me. alt and shift are all the same.
Picked up this when i use my PC at home and macs allday at college, it actually gets quite easy to remember to swap a ctrl hit wiht an apple hit after 2 years of having to do so

[Shan]

Since I'll be doing this blind with no mac keyboard to test, I'll need to know what needs to get remapped to what.

Even this is confusing since I'm going at it blind.

Shane

[MikeTrahearn]

You can use keytweak available here:
http://webpages.charter.net/krumsick/

I've got a slim mac keyboard on my Pc and the only awkward think I've found is I can't get PrintScreen to work (let me know if you find out how) and also the hash # key doesn't have a # symbol on it. Otherwise, a flawless performance.

[neuromillion]

thanks MikeTrahearn, i always wanted a program like keytweak. i wish i knew about it earlier. i think i'm actually going to physically swap ctrl, win and alt keys on my ps2 keyboard!

[audiogeekzine]

Shan its just the 3 keys on the bottom left that need to be switched.

on PC its 1)CTRL 2)Win 3)Alt
on Mac its 2)control 3)Option 1)command

A command like Alt+Tab is command+tab
copy is command C


That page is confusing.

[JWalkerPostAudio]

Originally Posted by audiogeekzine

Shan its just the 3 keys on the bottom left that need to be switched.

on PC its 1)CTRL 2)Win 3)Alt
on Mac its 2)control 3)Option 1)command

A command like Alt+Tab is command+tab
copy is command C


That page is confusing.

It is a little more complicated then that. As far as layout that is correct but alt on the PC has the functionality of opt on the Mac.

But there are still several commands that I can think of where even the functionality of these keys change in the translation.

• Move edit insertion to previous region boundary- Mac: opt+tab PC: cntrl+tab

• Move edit selection to previous region boundary- Mac: opt+shift+tab PC: cntrl+shift+tab

• Move region selection to previous region- Mac:opt+cntl+tab PC:cntrl+win+tab

• Move edit insertion to end of session- Mac: opt+rtrn PC: cntrl+entr

I'm sure there are more, but these are the ones that I can think of for now.

-Justin