Just a thanks to Peter and the L in general (again). This has to be one of
the most productive mailing lists I've ever been a member of and for my 6
years as a Mapinfo user, the L has steadily held this prestige!
A note about the Hotkeys and a thanks to Peter for reminding me to "think
outside the box".
While digitizing today, it dawned on me after about an hour of doing the
Keyboard Mouse Two Step, that now that I've added Peter's suggestion of the
hotkey for the select tool, the same would be awful handy for the "Add node"
tool.
As I seldom use the hotkey "Ctrl N" for creating a new table, I thought it
only makes sense that "Ctrl N" add a Node! So under the Edit menu and just
below the entry for "Reshape", I added:
"Add Node\tCtrl+N/W^N/Mn/XCtrl+n"
HelpMsg "Add a node to a region, polyline or line."
Calling 1723,
If someone's reading this and likes the idea, you'll need to make one
adjustment before doing this in your mapinfo.mnu file. On the line for "New
Table", you'll either need to remove or edit that line. I prefer to escape
it, or "rem" it out like so:
' "&New Table...\tCtrl+N/W^N/Mn/XCtrl+n"
"&New Table..."
HelpMsg "Create a new table."
calling 101,
The apostrophe at character space one works as it does in Mapbasic, it
causes MI to overlook that line. This way, I maintain some semblance of the
original .mnu file.
This might be misunderstood as being a little overboard with hotkeys, but it
really can save some time and mouse movement when your doing some extensive
digitizing and or a lot of it. Once you have an object set to "reshape" you
can move a node, add a node, undo a movement with one hand without taking
your eye off the spot: Ctrl+Space, Ctrl+N, Ctrl+Z.
Thanks Peter!
David Reid
GIS Manager
Colbert County 9-1-1
Colbert County, Alabama
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-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Horsbøll Møller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, September 12, 2005 1:13 AM
To: Evan MacDougall; MapInfo-L (E-mail)
Subject: RE: MI-L Creating hotkeys for pushbuttons
Evan,
You are right on. That is actually the way to create hotkeys for tools. Have
a look at my hotkeys for the Selector:
"Select\tCtrl+SPACE/W^%32"
HelpMsg "Select one or more map/layout objects or browser
records."
Calling 1701,
This means that I can use CTRL + SPACE to activate the Selector tool
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-----Original Message-----
From: Evan MacDougall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, September 09, 2005 7:17 PM
To: MapInfo-L (E-mail)
Subject: MI-L Creating hotkeys for pushbuttons
Hello all MapInfo programmer type people...
I've been working with the mapinfow.mnu file to add HotKeys for various
functions we use all the time (split, combine, select update table, etc).
That all works nicely. *pats self on back*
However, what i'd like to do, but haven't had enough time to figure out is
how to create HotKeys for some of the functions that are only available as
pushbuttons, such as the polygon draw tool and the select tool and the info
tool.
I'm thinking i could create a new "Drawing Tools" menu option with those
functions in it and then create hotkeys there, but i could be horribly wrong
with that assumption.
Any suggestions or examples would be helpful.
Thanks in advance!
-Evan MacDougall - GIS Dept Manager
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