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LFShade
02-21-2003, 05:37 AM
I was working in Max, doing some touch-ups on a script I'm writing, and suddenly - poof! - all my keyboard shortcuts stopped working, including the default ones. I tried toggling the shortcut override; no joy. I tried reloading the default UI, still nothing. I tried restarting my computer, still not fixed. Anybody got any idea what might have happened? I'm not too warm to the idea of uninstalling/reinstalling Max, since I've got a ton of customization to set back up if I do that (I don't want to reuse my UI files, in case they're corrupted).
jadedchron
02-21-2003, 05:47 AM
what about the key file in the max dir? no go?:shrug:
gaggle
02-21-2003, 10:15 AM
Baring you having saved your UI post-corruption, one could argue that the UI files themselves are alright, as you've been running with those for however long without issues. Hence if you load those into a fresh MAX they shouldn't f*ck things up.

That's all theory of course, so...

I don't have anything actually helpful to say on this though, I've... never heard about shortcut-looseage.. bummer.. How's about the Flash overlay on the splash screen, has it just gone completly blank as well?
Equinoxx
02-21-2003, 11:03 AM
LFShade, what does the output of the 'write Keyboard Chart' look like ??

any chance you got you're keboard shorts at home as well ??

or at the office, depending which of the two lost your keys.
you might try and put that one back.
LFShade
02-21-2003, 04:13 PM
Okay, folks, thanks for the help! At this point, I've pretty much tried everything I could think of - importing other UI files, kbd files, reinstalling the 5.1 update (in hopes of overwriting a corrupt file somewhere), exorcism, blessing with holy water, etc. :p Nothing worked!. I finally resolved myself to uninstall/reinstall, and hopefully reimporting my UI setup won't turn out to be a bad thing. Wish me luck :thumbsup:
Iain McFadzen
02-21-2003, 04:17 PM
You tried deleting your .ini file? I'd try that before taking the nuclear option, re-installing from scratch can be a nightmare sometimes.
Equinoxx
02-21-2003, 04:21 PM
cheers mate, all the luck to ya

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LFShade
02-21-2003, 04:42 PM
Iain -
Glad you answer quickly, since I had not yet tried killing the ini file. Let's see if that works...

[EDIT]
...nope!
Preparing to go nuclear :hmm:
...calibrating installation subsystem...initializing launch sequence...3...2...1...GO!
gaggle
02-21-2003, 05:02 PM
I'm suddenly strangly reminded of Independence Day. Or Aliens for that matter.
Which is not altogether bad mind you.

Report back with a survivors-report once the dust and radiation settles.
LFShade
02-21-2003, 06:26 PM
Okay, I'm back up and running, with UI intact and shortcuts functional. This is one for the X-files, as I just have no idea what could have happened. I'll bet it was just one of my mad-scientist-like script-o-riffic experiments gone wrong. I don't recommend trying this trick at home, kids :D
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