sketchucation logo sketchucation
    • Login
    πŸ€‘ SketchPlus 1.3 | 44 Tools for $15 until June 20th Buy Now

    Shortcuts to modified tools: can one do it?

    Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved SketchUp Discussions
    sketchup
    4 Posts 3 Posters 378 Views 3 Watching
    Loading More Posts
    • Oldest to Newest
    • Newest to Oldest
    • Most Votes
    Reply
    • Reply as topic
    Log in to reply
    This topic has been deleted. Only users with topic management privileges can see it.
    • EdsonE Offline
      Edson
      last edited by

      assigning shortcuts to tools one can reach through menus and contextual menus is easy enough. but what about actions that are triggered by a modifier key? for one, is there a way to assign a shortcut to move-copy (Tools-->Move + alt(option)?

      edson mahfuz, architect| porto alegre β€’ brasil
      http://www.mahfuz.arq.br

      1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
      • Chris FullmerC Offline
        Chris Fullmer
        last edited by

        Interesting, but I don't think its possible. I was thinking that a ruby could be written that just accessed the move tool and forced SU to think that the ctrl hey was being held down, but I am not sure that SU can tell a tool that a key is being held down. I think it can only check to see if a key is being pressed.

        I new copy tool could be coded and then assigned a shortcut. But thats not quite what you were looking for,

        Chris

        Lately you've been tan, suspicious for the winter.
        All my Plugins I've written

        1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
        • thomthomT Offline
          thomthom
          last edited by

          hm... I think you can send Win API calls from ruby, which I then think it would be possible to send a "Ctrl" key stroke. If I'm not wrong, there was a thread doing that to allow a script to open a group or component.

          Though, not sure if there's matching feature for Mac...

          Thomas Thomassen β€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
          List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

          1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
          • EdsonE Offline
            Edson
            last edited by

            @chris fullmer said:

            I new copy tool could be coded and then assigned a shortcut. But thats not quite what you were looking for,
            Chris

            i would not mind that as long as the copying got done.

            edson mahfuz, architect| porto alegre β€’ brasil
            http://www.mahfuz.arq.br

            1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
            • 1 / 1
            • First post
              Last post
            Buy SketchPlus
            Buy SUbD
            Buy WrapR
            Buy eBook
            Buy Modelur
            Buy Vertex Tools
            Buy SketchCuisine
            Buy FormFonts

            Advertisement