Set one of many shortcuts as the default in the interface

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eugenesv
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Set one of many shortcuts as the default in the interface

Post by eugenesv »

I've changed some shortcuts for menu items, but left some of the old variants in place just in case. But I'd like my new variants to show in the Menu item help column.
How can I set a preference towards one of the shortcuts without deleting the old one?
void
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Re: Set one of many shortcuts as the default in the interface

Post by void »

Everything will show the key with the lowest virtual key code.

I have put on my TODO list to show the user-customized key first.

Both keys will work.
Only one key is shown for the menu item key.
eugenesv
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Re: Set one of many shortcuts as the default in the interface

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What if you have two user customized keys? Or maybe the user customized key is set as a secondary alternative.

I think the best way is to allow marking one as the main keybind explicitly.
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Re: Set one of many shortcuts as the default in the interface

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What if you have two user customized keys?
Everything would fallback to the lowest virtual key code.


Or maybe the user customized key is set as a secondary alternative.
Hardly anyone is going to set the primary key, that will just add bloat to the UI.

I will consider support for setting the primary key as a hidden ini setting.

Thank you for the suggestions.
eugenesv
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Re: Set one of many shortcuts as the default in the interface

Post by eugenesv »

Hardly anyone is going to set the primary key, that will just add bloat to the UI.
A great idea without any bloat - why not make the shortcuts list "sortable" and use the natural "top key in the list" the primary one? No invisible and unintuitive VK magic, no hidden settings making trivial operations more convoluted. "What you see is what you get" GUI goodness.

That's what I've also tried: deleting/adding keys to see if their order in the list changes, so it's partially intuitively discoverable
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Re: Set one of many shortcuts as the default in the interface

Post by void »

Sorting by order added is a good idea.

I have put this on my TODO list.

Thank you for the suggestion.