| 1 | A feature that has been repeatedly asked is at last available in version
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| 2 | 0.4.15: configurable key shortcuts.
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| 3 |
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| 4 | Here it's a brief explanation.
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| 5 | The actions editor is located in Preferences->Mouse & keyboard. There
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| 6 | you'll see a table with all actions.
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| 7 |
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| 8 | There are 4 columns. The first one will be used to display warnings if
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| 9 | there are repeated shortcuts.
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| 10 | The 2nd one shows the current shortcut, which you can change.
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| 11 | The 3rd column shows the description. This is normally the text that
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| 12 | appears in menus. Maybe some descriptions, without their menus, aren't
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| 13 | very clear, so I added in column 4 the internal name of the action.
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| 14 |
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| 16 | How to change a shortcut:
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| 17 | This is different if you use Qt 3 or Qt 4.
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| 18 |
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| 19 | With Qt 3 it's very easy. Just click on the shortcut cell, and now press
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| 20 | the key (or combination of keys) that you want to be the new shortcut.
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| 21 | And the name of the key will appear. To delete a shortcut, right click
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| 22 | with the mouse and choose "Clear".
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| 23 |
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| 24 | With Qt 4 it's no so easy. Double click on the shortcut cell you want to
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| 25 | change, and then edit the shortcut text as a normal text.
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| 26 | Setting a shortcut for key "A" or "F4" is easy, but maybe you can't
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| 27 | figure out the name of all keys (specially if your language is not
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| 28 | English). Here (http://doc.trolltech.com/4.2/qt.html#Key-enum) you can
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| 29 | see the list of key names in Qt (you have to type what is after "Qt::Key_")
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| 30 | BTW, the name of the Enter key is actually "Return".
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| 31 |
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| 32 | When you click on the Ok or Apply buttons, the new shortcuts will be
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| 33 | used (and saved to the configuration file). On the the hand if you
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| 34 | select Cancel all changes will be lost.
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| 35 |
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| 36 | It's also possible to save the list of shortcuts to a file (with
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| 37 | extension "keys"), and load it later (what you really save or load
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| 38 | is the current contents of the edition table).
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| 39 |
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| 40 | The *.keys files are just plain text. Each line has two fields separated
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| 41 | by a tab: the action name, and the shortcut.
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