How to change menu shortcuts

[Christof Schardt]

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).

[bbadmin]

Please submit a bug report detailing which menu entry shortcuts are duplicated and we will look into this issue.

Thanks,
Keith MacDonald
Helios Software Solutions

[Christof Schardt]

Code: Select all

In the menu "Bearbeiten"
---------------------------------

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"
---------------------------------
Alle Dateinamen
	a (bad, doubled) old and new
	could be 'd'

[Christof Schardt]

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.

[Christof Schardt]

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.

[bbadmin]

Apologies for not fixing the duplicate menu shortcuts which you reported. This will be corrected in the next release.

Keith MacDonald
Helios Software Solutions

[Christof Schardt]

Thanks!

[Christof Schardt]

Apologies for not fixing the duplicate menu shortcuts which you reported. This will be corrected in the next release.

Keith MacDonald

I updated to 8.02 right now and missed this fix. Did you overlook it?

[Christof Schardt]

Apologies for not fixing the duplicate menu shortcuts which you reported. This will be corrected in the next release.

Keith MacDonald

I updated to 8.02 right now and missed this fix. Did you overlook it?

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]

Apologies for not fixing the duplicate menu shortcuts which you reported. This will be corrected in the next release.

Keith MacDonald
Helios Software Solutions

Which means when exactly?

[AmigoJack]

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:

1. freely assign a menu item caption,
2. freely assign an action to that menu item (actually I'm able to assign multiple actions to one menu item), and
3. freely assign a shortcut to a menu item.

I can even create new or drop existing menu items.

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.