01 Jul 2012, 23:48
I used to be able to simply depress the letter "P" to show preview images while scrolling around with Finderpop within a folder. Now when I do it, it sometimes flashes the preview image for an brief instant, but then closes the Finderpop menu and launches the Mac OS info window as if I had depressed command-i on the item.
If I use the longer keyboard shorcut for preview: "command-shift-option" the preview works as expected every time and shows me previews without the trouble I mentioned above.
To make things even more confusing... sometimes the letter "P" shortcut DOES work as expected. This is also the case for the letter "i" shortcut as well. I can seemingly make it happen more often if I'm in Safari and then without switching to the Finder first I click-n-hold on a folder on my Desktop right away.
I'm using FinderPop 2.4.3 with Mac OS 10.6.8 (all latest updates) while using a trackpad to do the click-n-hold on a MacBook Pro.
Here's an animated GIF showing it happening after having Safari as the active window then showing it work correctly afterwards:
28 Feb 2013, 03:51
This is still happening, is this a problem for anyone else?
02 Mar 2013, 16:27
Alas that 'P' for 'Preview' stuff really only works well on 10.4 and 10.5 - on 10.6 and later, the menu manager sometimes does funky stuff where it is already processing the keypress by the time I see it (and any changes I make to the keypress event are ignored.)
31 May 2013, 19:21
The strange thing is it works perfect with the shift-command-option shortcut (where I continuously depress those keys). That wouldn't be so bad, but it's an awkward position to keep depressing keys at. Is it possible to change those shortcut keys to something more practical? Like maybe just the shift key or something like that?