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    [New Feature]: Floating Shorcut

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    • CadFatherC Offline
      CadFather
      last edited by

      here's the idea (which should really be in any program)

      • select a tool [say mirror]

      • press a key [K]

      • sketchup waits for you to choose a new key [F2 or F3 or F4]

      • you press F2 and that becomes the temporary shorcut key for mirror.

      • now you do something else, say you select 'pipe along path'

      • press K

      • sketchup waits for you to choose a new key [F2 or F3 or F4]

      if you choose F2 you will overwrite the shorcut key for mirror
      you can still choose F3 or F4 so having a system of three floating shorcuts

      still one bug though, needs someone to write it!

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      • W Offline
        Whaat
        last edited by

        I don't think you can set shortcut keys using Ruby, but I could be wrong.

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        • fredo6F Offline
          fredo6
          last edited by

          The problem is that you also need key shortcuts within a tool (for instance I use Function keys to change some options and parameters in JPP or OffsetOnSurface).
          Sketchup traps any key type and would switch to the tool is the key is assigned to any.

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          • CadFatherC Offline
            CadFather
            last edited by

            ah..not so easy then..

            to clarify: once you install the FS plugin, you assign it a key shortcut - [K]

            you click on K and SU is waiting for you to type a second key (as if you were in preferences > shortcuts) - SU knows which tool you are using and will use this knowledge to assign the command to a second key.

            ..this second key is always the same key - it would be useful even with one floating key (doesn't have to be a function key), # for example.

            hope someone can...it would be a real useful feature,

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