Hi Chip and Mike,
It is too bad that some apps are .we and such because if all had a .ini
file it would be very easy to scan through all of them for the hotkeys. Could
this be a good solution in the future? Making .ini files for all apps
regardless?
My $0.02
Bruce
Sent: Saturday, October 15, 2011 9:34 PM
Subject: RE: Finding Hot Key App
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
