How to change menu shortcuts
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How to change menu shortcuts
I recently upgraded from 4.7.3 to 7.2 and experienced a different workflow in the pulldown menus. It is caused by the fact, that shortcuts (german) have changed and aren't unique any more.
How can I change the menu shortcuts?
I tried to hack the DLL in a res-editor, but this did not work, because the relevant strings did not appear in the file as expected. Apparently there is no 1:1-mapping between resource entries and menu entries.
BTW: Why is it crucial for a fast workflow to have unique accelerators in the menu?
Because only then the key-press leads to immediate actions (open submenu, execute command). Otherwise you have to navigate with additional keystrokes (cursor, enter).
How can I change the menu shortcuts?
I tried to hack the DLL in a res-editor, but this did not work, because the relevant strings did not appear in the file as expected. Apparently there is no 1:1-mapping between resource entries and menu entries.
BTW: Why is it crucial for a fast workflow to have unique accelerators in the menu?
Because only then the key-press leads to immediate actions (open submenu, execute command). Otherwise you have to navigate with additional keystrokes (cursor, enter).
Christof Schardt
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bugreport menu shortcuts
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In the menu "Bearbeiten"
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Zeilen verbinden
old: z (good)
new: v (bad, doubled)
Neu formatieren
old: t (good)
new: f (bad, doubled)
Einzug verkleinern
old: n (good)
new: l (bad, doubled)
Einzug vergrößern
old: ö (good)
new: g (bad, doubled)
In the submenu "Bearbeiten - Kopieren"
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Alle Dateinamen
a (bad, doubled) old and new
could be 'd'
Christof Schardt
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menu shortcuts still broken
Again the duplicated shortcuts: I wrote a bug-report.
This takes 10 seconds to fix. Reported in 2014. Any chance to get it into 7.51 ?
Thanks in advance.
This takes 10 seconds to fix. Reported in 2014. Any chance to get it into 7.51 ?
Thanks in advance.
Christof Schardt
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Re: menu shortcuts still broken
Christof Schardt wrote:Again the duplicated shortcuts: I wrote a bug-report.
This takes 10 seconds to fix. Reported in 2014. Reported in 2015.
Now reported in 2016.
I had hoped for 8.0.
Thanks once again in advance for considering.
Christof Schardt
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Christof Schardt wrote:I updated to 8.02 right now and missed this fix. Did you overlook it?bbadmin wrote:Apologies for not fixing the duplicate menu shortcuts which you reported. This will be corrected in the next release.
Keith MacDonald
I updated to 8.10 right now and still miss this fix. Did you again and again and again overlook it?
I'm begging again and again and again and again for this tiny little fix, which would make my daily life so much easier.
Christof Schardt
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On behalf of this: why not offering an INI or an XML file where one can freely edit shortcuts?
In my programs I "simply" used the onclick-method names as identifiers, and thanks to RTTI the program is able to find methods by name, so I can do thrice:
So far the effort I put into programming this feature has paid of dozens of times. And for self-teaching purposes one help menu item will print all available action/method names that can be assigned. If TextPad would have this too then nobody could complain anymore.
In my programs I "simply" used the onclick-method names as identifiers, and thanks to RTTI the program is able to find methods by name, so I can do thrice:
- freely assign a menu item caption,
- freely assign an action to that menu item (actually I'm able to assign multiple actions to one menu item), and
- freely assign a shortcut to a menu item.
So far the effort I put into programming this feature has paid of dozens of times. And for self-teaching purposes one help menu item will print all available action/method names that can be assigned. If TextPad would have this too then nobody could complain anymore.