As we talk about this Mike, it occurs to me it could be an idea for a little app which would watch for any app registering the same hotkey as any other, and have it put up a message box when that happened "A has just registered hotkey x which B has also registered".
I'm also thinking this same app could be made to tell you which app has registered a given hotkey, because I too have found myself in a situation where some app was "eating" a hotkey I was trying to use in some program, and I had no idea who was doing that. would be nice to have a little utility which would let me give it the hotkey and have it tell me who was doing that. I can't do anything obviously about the other difficulties you mentioned; oh well. Chip -----Original Message----- From: Mike Pietruk [mailto:piet...@panix.com] Sent: Saturday, October 15, 2011 6:36 PM To: gw-scripting@gwmicro.com Subject: RE: Finding Hot Key App Chip Thanks for your thoughts. I now understand what the difficulty would be in attempting to create such an animal. The problem, of course, is further complicated is that many folks, in addition to apps, have all sorts of other programs and utilities that have been configured with various key combos which, sooner or later, will conflict. Add to this that, with so many apps, one may not entirely be sure what app provides a given function or ability; and should you need to change the combination, it requires hunting and hecking of where to go. And, oh yes, once upon a time, I removed an app, thinking I no longer needed it around, only a few days later discovering that I couldn't do something. And at that point, I didn't at first know what I might have removed or unintentionally modified. So all these shortcuts to do things are great; but keeping track of them is no easy matter either. - "The main vice of capitalism is the uneven distribution of prosperity. The main vice of socialism is the even distribution of misery." Winston Churchill
