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Submitted by gregory on 2010/09/04 01:58

The standard hot key to add a new item to InfoQube when outside that application is Windows + N – {Win}+N. Unfortunately, it appears that that hotkey is used by the Microsoft OneNote application, and that it cannot be changed in that application.

There would appear to be two ways to change the hot key in InfoQube:

1. tools/options/other/add item hotkey

2. Right click on tool bar; customise/keyboard

If I attempt to use the first option, any attempt to edit the existing string and to enter {Win} causes random and uncontrollable changes to the suggested hotkey. The only sensible choice open to me is to press the escape key, and to revert to the existing setting. It may be significant that I am using a French AZERTY keyboard.

The second option is ineffective, because the hotkey I am trying to change is a system-wide choice which therefore does not appear in a standard InfoQube menu.

So, at this point in time, I have not succeeded in changing the standard hotkey and I am not able to add new items to InfoQube without first switching to that application.

Can anyone help me?

I see also that there are menu options for Tools / Keyboard Shortcuts, but these fail looking for a non-existent folder. I cannot in any event find any documentation for this facility.

Mark

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It has been buggy for me before but then I also have problems related to importing shortcuts (which I havent had time to pin down or reproduce so havent reported yet) so I tried this out on clean install (with a german keyboard).

I am able to succesfully change it to e.g. Ctrl+Alt+N by using the right alt key and the n key.

If you try it in a clean install & see if it works - if so you can rule out the keyboard (have you used the 'Load custom shortcuts' feature?)

Hi Tom and thanks for suggestions.

Right, let's start by identifying the problems a little bit more precisely.

The dialogue for changing the shortcut using Tools / Options... / General / Other looks like this:

You can make very little changes to the key. Thus clicking after the capital C, keying backspace to remove C and keying z gives:

(I apologise for the large images. I'll make them smaller from now on.))

If I try anything more complicated, liking keying Alt Gr to get the open-brace character { so as to be able to type {Win}, IQ goes slightly mad and replaces the whole existing string with seemingly almost random selections of characters, for example this:

What seems to be hapening is that IQ is ignoring what I take to be its own advice - which is to type the literal string as five characters {, w, i, n, } - and instead react exactly to what is being typed. To take a simpler example, as soon as I press the shift on the keyboard, IQ immediately supplies {shift}. That's fine EXCEPT that on - I guess - non-US keyboards keying {win} + lower-case letter is ignored, keying {win} + {shift} + anything results in a stored literal like this:

and I am strongly, strongly tempted to give up in frustration. Not for the first time...

The suggestions to Pierre would be:

Test using non-US keyboard (surely already done?)
React properly to the {win} and {alt} and {shift} keys - IF in fact those keys ever gets to IQ; the system may already intercept them
Correctly interpret a very literal reading of what IQ says by permitting the user to type {, w, i, n, } - which will get round any system interception of the keyboard

As to the suggestion of using Load custom shortcuts. This appears to be another undocumented facility. In IQ, I can see the names of two shortcut files of type TAB. I can't get my editor to even see those files - maybe there's some system or hidden attribute on the folder in which I'm storing them - so I can't get to edit them. I simply do not have time to investigate such problems EVERY time I encounter them - I have already spent two hours investigating and documenting this problem. For now I shall live with a shortcut key of {win} z.

Mark Gregory, Rennes, France - GMT +1/+2; EST +6

well it looks like I just happened to choose one of the few combos that do work here !!!

Yes, it does work in the way that if you press control, immediately {Ctrl} is filled in, etc.

If it did work well it would seem to me to be a lot more user friendly than typing in {curly brackets} etc.

~ The Win key has unpredictable effects in combo with other keys (say 'z'):

just the letter 'z' shows but only till I release the Win key - then I get just {Ctrl} instead (the letter disappears). Press Win + z again & I (sometimes) get z {Ctrl}

~ Also can confirm that Win + Shift + z gives

Z {Shift} Z

~ AltGr + is as you report - if I use it in combo with '7' which on the german keyboard would give '{' I get the same result as you (with doubled brackets at the start):

{{Crtl} {Alt} 7

OK, I've turned off the automatic recognition of shift, ctrl, etc.

Now simply type in the shortcut key.

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