OK. Wish there was a chance for a user to define double-keys for any
feature in the hotkey manager. As more and more apps become available,
and a user may want to have his apps intuitive, even when comes to
hotkeys, double-keys will be a miss.
Let me give you but one more example, in addition to the one Chip gave.
Say you want one hotkey for the Time, and another for Date. Other screen
readers have features split that way. It is no trouble in hard-coding
this in Win-Eyes either. Yet, should the user want to redefine to a more
convenient hotkey - for him - it is impossible, the way things stands
today. Or, what about an app that would perform a limited action when
the hotkey is pressed once, but a more advanced version of the job when
the hotkey is doubled. To a user with several apps, it would be far more
comprehenble, if the hotkeys could be grouped,according to somehow
similar operation. And with the hotkey manager in place, it really
should have been possible for an app to have double-hotkeys, and let the
user redefine them as he wanted. Whether he wanted another
double-hotkey, or even if he wanted an existing double to be split into
two totally separate single-hotkeys.
Something for the developing team to put on the wishlist?
David
On 6/4/2015 12:49 AM, Chip Orange wrote:
Hi David,
As I understood it, A I never meant for you to be able to define a single
hotkey as being a double press of a certain key. That is, their only intent
was that you could add additional functionality to your basic hotkey by
allowing the user to press it twice (so, one press reads something, then two
might spell it instead of reading it). Their intent however was that the
spell function in this example, was always designed to be the second press
of the basic hotkey. So, if the user changed the basic hotkey, then it
should be made clear in the documentation that this secondary function would
just be a second immediate press of whatever this key was.
If you have in mind two unrelated functions, which you may want the user to
be able to assign to two unrelated hotkeys, then I think you cannot use the
second press feature for either of them (or the user cannot); this can only
be something you program in, and make clear in your docs, if you want the
second press of a hotkey to do something.
It may not be what you want, but I hope this at least clears it up a bit.
Chip
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Subject: Double Hotkey, and Hotkey Manager
Listers,
Sorry for the wrong term, but my memory fails me, as to the correct
term. I am wondering if there has been any further develop on a lack I
found earlier.
Say your app has a hotkey that needs to be pressed twice within a second
or so - Like Alt-F12, Alt-F12 - to perform a certain task. Last time I
attempted to incoporate such a hotkey in my project, I found that it did
not work well with the hotkey manager. You can make this work first
hand, when releasing the app. But if the user wants to redefine the
hotkey - say to Ctrl-F12, the hotkey manager will redefine it to only a
SINGLE press of the hotkey - meaning that the app will react upon the
first press of the hotkey.
Thing is, I have an app here, where I want function1 to take place when
the hotkey is pressed once, and only once. Function2 should kick in,
when the user double-press the same key-combination. Hope this makes
sense. But how can I work this out, so that the user can redefine to any
other key-combo, even if he wants a Single-/Double-version of another
key-combo. Like in the example above.
Sorry for a messy message, but hope I came through clear enough that
someone could please let me know, if there is any workaround here. Or,
is this not possible to achieve the way things stands as of current?
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