Hi Mike, There is an app called ScriptMenu (in the utilities category), by Jamal Mazrui, which sort of does this. It's primary shortcoming from what you asked for however, is that it only shows you the hotkeys for the apps which are currently running.
So, for instance, I've written an app which only runs if Word is running; and if you don't happen to have Word running when you use ScriptMenu, then you won't see any of it's hotkeys. In fact, it would not show up in the app manager either. This is something of a problem for program-specific apps. The only place where you can find out that you have these apps would be in the WE control panel's Apps menu, "add or remove apps" dialog, which does list all the apps you have installed, but doesn't let you see anything about the hotkeys they have defined, or a description as to what the app does. It's really a basic design problem for program-specific apps; information about them just isn't easily available if they aren't running. Someone could write an app which tackles this issue a different way; it could go through the list of all apps you've installed, and try to extract this information from their XML files rather than from the running app. There's no guarantee though it would be there, it could be hard-coded in the app for instance. I don't know if anyone would be willing to tackle this problem this other way. You could try ScriptMenu and see what you think of it. hth, Chip -----Original Message----- From: Mike Pietruk [mailto:piet...@panix.com] Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2011 7:32 PM To: gw-scripting@gwmicro.com Subject: RE: Finding Hot Key App Has anyone ever attempted to write a script that would go through one's apps, finding all of the htkeys defined and/or defaulted to, and then show the results in some sort of table. As a user of apps, I would find this handy not only as a reminder of what kways are in use and what they do; and hopefully the table would show the app from which the key came so I wouldn't accidentally remove an app whose hotkey was important to me. I have done this in the past not realizing that a given app performed a certain function I regularly used. Apps are great; but with so many of them around, after a while, you don't necessarily associate a specific app with what you use it for. He who has the Holy Spirit in his heart and the Scriptures in his hands has all he needs. Alexander MacLaren
