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Morganism

10-06-2005, 04:45 PM

Heya.
So I've used MEL to set some hotkeys, using the code straight out of the command reference.

nameCommand

-annotation "Select Circle Tool"

-command "setToolTo circleContext"

circleToolNamedCommand;

hotkey -k "F5" -alt -name "circleToolNamedCommand";

However, this new hotkey doesn't show up in the hotkey window, and if I do a search for that key or command name in the hotkey window it comes up with an error.

So, I was wondering if anyone knows what's up with that.

On a separate note, is there a way to set hotkeys that aren't alphanumeric with a SHIFT modifier? (Like shift + Up? or shift + F5?)

Morganism

10-17-2005, 05:19 PM

Sorry to bump my own thread, but I still haven't figured this out.

Perhaps someone could enlighten me about how hotkeys work.....it seems there there's the user hotkey file, and the named command file, but I don't see the actual code that's run in either of those.

wrend

10-19-2005, 05:02 AM

you need a runtime command which the named command points at (with your main command in it)..

you'd want to save the runtime file too (by flag -save).

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