Does anyone know of a Ruby that saves your shortcuts

Jackson

Yep SU's hotkey import and export function is still crock- as Bagatelo says, it'll import and export 90% of your hotkeys, but when it clashes with SU's defaults it lets them win.

... and I can't believe "Make component" still gets a default hotkey, but not "Make Group". No wonder so many SU users don't understand the difference between their uses.

Chris Fullmer

Yeah, that is one I set up always right away. G for component, and ctrl-G for group.

Chris

thomthom

Ctrl+Shift+V ought to be standard as well.

Jackson

@chris fullmer said:

G for component

FAIL!

I actually use G for Make Group and still use the right-click context menu for making components. It's funny how I can't imagine working in SU without hotkeys and yet there's still plenty of tools which I access the loooooong way round.

JClements

Since SU has been so innovative in the past you'd think they would have implemented voice recognition so you could assign verbal commands as shortcuts.

It would be a little noisy in an office environment , but would be fast and freeup unecessary keystrokes.

thomthom

Think that is built into Vista and Windows7...

Chris Fullmer

@jackson said:

@chris fullmer said:

G for component
FAIL!

I agree! But I decided with this last release of SU to leave all the default shortcuts alone so that I could use everyone else's SU when I was showing them the software. And G is the default key for make component. I used to use it for make Group, and ctrl-G was make component.

I'm realizing that I didn't follow my plan very well though, because some of their shortcuts are just stupid, and I changed them. I am thinking of O for orbit.....that is what the scroll wheel is for. O is for offset! So I've changed that default, and a few others. Oh well, I tried

Chris

Jackson

LOL, yep I knew why you had G for component, it just made me chuckle. Like Ralph in the Simpsons: "An F in English? That's unpossible!"

Most of my hotkeys are acronymic:

S - Select
D - Deselect
L - Line
A - Arc
M - Move
C - Circle
F - Follow me
E - Eraser
H - Hide
U - Unhide All
G - Group
R - Rotate
O - Offset
X - eXplode

After that it becomes a bit cryptic, but there's still an obscure logic:

K - Konstruction lines (sic)
J - Erase construction lines (because it's adjacent to K)
Shift+H - Toggle hide/unhide other geometry (other than components)
Ctrl+M - Monochrome render
Ctrl+B - Textured render (no logic to that)
Q - PushPull. Simply because it's close to hand for my left hand.

I really should assign a lot more hotkeys, but switching between SU, Autocad, PS and 3DS Max hotkeys already has my fingers tangled like spaghetti.

RickW

If you rename the .dat file from the default name to something like "shortcuts.dat", you have better success in importing shortcuts and overwriting the SU defaults, at least in my past experience. That could be related to the SU6 bugs that reportedly got fixed in SU7. I'll see if I can do a test on that here sometime soon...

TIG

Simply exporting them to file - say 'myshortcuts.dat' makes a list as a text file thus.

[Accelerators]
Count=64
0 0 0 Space selectSelectionTool:
0 0 0 L selectLineTool:
0 0 0 E selectEraseTool:
0 0 0 C selectCircleTool:
0 0 0 A selectArcTool:
0 0 0 M selectMoveTool:
...

The 0 0 0 fields represents modifier keys Ctrl/Alt/Shift, so

0 0 0 H editHide:
0 0 1 H Edit/Unhide/All ###shift

This is used to Import your setting in the Preferences window.

To ensure that they over-write any pre-existing ones you really need to edit the Windows Registry [ - be verycareful!]...
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Google\Sketchup7\Settings Num_Shortcuts = REG_DWORD = 64 [or total of list length] Shortcut_1 = REG_SZ = "0 0 0 Space selectSelectionTool:" Shortcut_2 = REG_SZ = "0 0 0 L selectLineTool:"
etc...
You would 'empty' the 'Settings' prior to re-importing new ones ?

Don't try this unless you know what you are doing... else=

If you did then you could [with SUp closed] use a batch file to clear the Registry's '...\Settings' entries and then use those saved in the 'myshortcuts.dat' etc to remake those entries to suit...

An alternative way to get a list of shortcuts is using the Ruby Console command:
myshortcuts_array=Sketchup.get_shortcuts
which returns an array of tab delimited shortcuts - e.g.
["Ctrl+A\tEdit/Select All", "Ctrl+C\tEdit/Copy", ...]
You could manipulate each entry in that array and puts it into an external file [ myshortcuts_file="...\\myshortcuts.dat" ?] - this is equivalent to Exporting your current shortcut settings from Preferences - e.g. "Ctrl+A\tEdit/Select All" >>becomes***>> "1 0 0 A Edit/Select All"


###becomes 'simplied' - the testing and pattern matching is 'cod' here == it's NOT real code !
text=myshortcuts_array[i]
ctrl = "1 " if text.includes "Ctrl" else ctrl = "0 "
alt = "1 " if text.includes "Alt" else alt = "0 "
shift = "1 " if text.includes "Shift" else shift = "0 "
key = text.split("+")[1].split("\t")[0]
command = " " + text.split("+")[1].split("\t")[1]
line = ctrl+alt+shift+key+command
myshortcuts_file.puts(line)
###

You could make the script auto-run on close and always keep a list of your current shortcuts ? You could then reimport them as desired using Preferences/Import or using a Registry batch-file lash-up...

Hope there're a few ideas there...