Hi Guys,
Yes, conformity in narrowing the .ini name, but the best quote is the Sir
Winston Churchill and that speaks volumes, including the protests now being
stage all around the world and those protesters don't realize who is sponsoring
them and the eventual end result...
Like I said, it was a nice idea, so:
Instead of that, how about an app that is global and monitors all apps as being
loaded, so, then the hotkeys assigned in memory are exposed-scanned for and
then the warning comes up if any conflict with others. An interesting thought
that does not rely on any app file, just memory residency.
Sincerely
Bruce
Mike's Quote:
- "The main vice of capitalism is the uneven distribution of prosperity.
The main
vice of socialism is the even distribution of misery." -
Winston Churchill
Sent: Sunday, October 16, 2011 10:27 AM
Subject: RE: Finding Hot Key App
Hi Bruce,
Yes; it's better than scanning the .xml files, which I had first thought of
(as it captures any changes to keys being used). The app though would have
to write such a file; most do but it's not something you can be sure is
going to happen, and sometimes it's not easy to link the .ini file to the
app given that the app may have spaces, dashes, or underlines in it's name
which may not be the same in the .ini file name.
Chip
-----Original Message-----
Sent: Sunday, October 16, 2011 8:22 AM
Subject: Re: Finding Hot Key App
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
