Using F1-F10 on a Mac

Trobot

United States125 Posts

February 21 2011 18:53 GMT

I play on a MacBook, as I had to get one for college, and if anyone knows mac keyboards they've integrated the function keys (F1-10) with volume control, screen brightness, etc. Problem is, they override the traditional F1-10 keys and I have to break my fingers in order to hit the Function key to access the F functions with one hand.

Has anyone remapped their hotkeys or found a way to disable the integrated functions in order to use the location hotkey mapping for SC2, or am I restricted to using only the Town Camera function until I start playing on a Windows computer? Any advice would be appreciated.

Krikan

Norway520 Posts

February 21 2011 18:58 GMT

I've been having trouble with the exact same thing.

CopperLeague

154 Posts

February 21 2011 19:00 GMT

You can disable those keys by going to System Preferences->Keyboard->Check 'Use F1-F2, etc keys as standard function keys.'

Whether this will solve it or not is up for grabs.

skyR

Canada13817 Posts

February 21 2011 19:00 GMT

Its in the settings.

Sysytem Pref > Keyboard & Mouse > Keyboard

Solinos

United States105 Posts

February 21 2011 19:02 GMT

On February 22 2011 04:00 CopperLeague wrote:
You can disable those keys by going to System Preferences->Keyboard->Check 'Use F1-F2, etc keys as standard function keys.'

Whether this will solve it or not is up for grabs.

Yes, this solves the problem. To use those keys to control volume/brightness/etc. again, just hold down your Fn key while pressing them.

Trobot

United States125 Posts

February 21 2011 19:03 GMT

You can disable those keys by going to System Preferences->Keyboard->Check 'Use F1-F2, etc keys as standard function keys.'

Whether this will solve it or not is up for grabs.

Yeah, I've found that, but I don't want logging into Starcraft to be such a chore that I have to reset my computer's preferences just to play a few custom games with my friends. :/

CopperLeague

154 Posts

February 21 2011 19:04 GMT

Pretty sure you could make an Applescript program to do it for you. Applescript's pretty damn easy.

arthur

United Kingdom488 Posts

February 21 2011 19:05 GMT

On February 22 2011 04:03 Trobot wrote:

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Yeah, I've found that, but I don't want logging into Starcraft to be such a chore that I have to reset my computer's preferences just to play a few custom games with my friends. :/

Then just keep them like that, and just press fn key when you want to adjust volume etc.
I disabled them anyway, if you use any Adobe CS5 programs, you need to use F5 F7 F9 etc for opening windows.

ROOTheognis

United States4482 Posts

February 21 2011 19:07 GMT

System Preferences >>> Keyboard >>. Problem Solved.

DiDigital

75 Posts

February 23 2011 10:27 GMT

#10

Its been awhile since I played without a wireless keyboard but I think I previously used a setting in starcraft 2 to change it. I may be misremembering.

exnomendei

Netherlands122 Posts

February 23 2011 10:32 GMT

#11


tell application "System Preferences"
	set current pane to pane id "com.apple.preference.keyboard"
	tell application "System Events"
		tell process "System Preferences"
			click checkbox "Use all F1, F2, etc. keys as standard function keys" of tab group 1 of window "Keyboard"
		end tell
	end tell
	quit
end tell

There's the Applescript to change it. I set mine up to have a keyboard shortcut (Command-Option-Period) to change it, but be warned, it doesn't work once SC2 is loaded up. You can run it manually though.

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