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From: bill@cbmvax.commodore.com (Bill Koester)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: A3000 questions
Keywords: commodities, hotkeys, UEdit, conflict, fugu
Message-ID: <16018@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 21 Nov 90 16:42:26 GMT
References: <14356@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> <1990Nov20.114334.19200@engin.umich.edu> <1990Nov20.202332.5642@isis.cs.du.edu>
Reply-To: bill@cbmvax.commodore.com (Bill Koester)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <1990Nov20.202332.5642@isis.cs.du.edu> chanson@isis.UUCP (Christopher Eric Hanson) writes:
>
>  The other gripe I have seen alot is thus:
> 
>    I thought commodities was designed so the user could have a consistant
>way of configuring all his/her pop-toys, wonderfmarlbes, and whiz-bangs.
>That's great, but NONE OF THE COMMODITIES ALLOW YOU TO CHANGE THEIR HOTKEYS.
>
Huh. All of the commodities allow you to change their hotkeys!

>I'd love to use Autopoint, and IHelp. They are great. Bewteen those two,
>and the built-in mouse acceleration, I would no longer need Mach.
> 
Autopoint has no hotkey to reconfigure it should not conflict with
anything.

>But, the hotkeys that you hard-coded into the commodities (actually, IHelp
>is somewhat reconfigurable by WB Tooltypes) conflict with many of the most-
>used key abbreviations that UEdit, the text editor I use. Now, UEdit can be
>reconfigured for all key abbreviations, but I've learned the ones I'm using
>now, and I'm a stubborn guy.
> 
All Window based commodities accept the following tool types:

CX_POPUP=YES|NO  ;If YES then to commodity will open its window when run.
                  If NO it will not open its window. (good for putting
                   commodities in the WBStartup drawer)

CX_POPKEY=lshift lcommand lalt x ; Set the default hot key for the commodity.
                                   all commodities have reasonable defaults
                                    that can be changed with this tool type.

In addition IHELP supports the following tool types:

CYCLE=hotkey
MAKEBIG=hotkey
MAKESMALL=hotkey
CYCLESCREEN=hotkey
ZIPWINDOW=hotkey

The qualifiers that you can use in your hotkey strings are as follows:

alt		either alt key
lalt		left alt key
ralt		right alt key
shift		either shift key
lshift		left shift key
rshift		right shift key
lcommand	left amiga key
rcommand	right amiga key
control		control key
numericpad	must be a numeric pad key like 'numericpad 0'

>   Now maybe, I'm needlessly flaming. Maybe (please tell me this is so) there
>is a way to reconfigure the hotkeys that the commodities. And maybe IHelp
>actually can use something other than vanilla F1-F10 (I've tried getting it
>to use Control-F1, etc, but it won't recognise that...). If so, please, speak
>or I will forever lose my marbles. (MIX that metaphor!) I'll send you many
>cans of Macadamia nuts if you do this. Please...

Macadamia nuts are daveh's favorite, you can send me double Manhattans!

> 
>   Chris - Xenon
>
		Bill Koester - Keeper of Commodities.