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Switch toolbar with hotkey - inshadow - 04-04-2008

How can I add a hotkey to a toolbar so that I can switch between my toolbars from the keyboard?

/Stig

- Yuri Kobets - 04-04-2008

Currently it is possible by using auto-sensing (TLB Settings->Auto sensing). When you create the workspace TLB allow to enter the hotket to activate created workspace.

- inshadow - 04-05-2008

Yuri Kobets Wrote:Currently it is possible by using auto-sensing (TLB Settings->Auto sensing). When you create the workspace TLB allow to enter the hotket to activate created workspace.

Yes. I also tried that. But it doesn't work very reliable.
Now if I have two workspaces - workspace 1 and 2 - and perform the following hotkey combination - this will happen:
  • Hotkey workspace 1 - Workspace 1 shows
    Hotkey workspace 2 - Workspace 2 shows
    Hotkey workspace 1 - Workspace 1 shows but switches instantly back to Workspace 2 (?!!)
    Hotkey workspace 1 - Workspace 1 shows but switches instantly back to Workspace 2 (?!!)
    Hotkey workspace 2 - Workspace 1 shows (?!!)
    Hotkey workspace 1 - goes back to the regular toolbar content
    Hotkey workspace 2 - Workspace 2 shows
    Hotkey workspace 2 - goes back to the regular toolbar content[/list:u]


- Yuri Kobets - 04-13-2008

Quote:Hotkey workspace 1 - Workspace 1 shows but switches instantly back to Workspace 2 (?!!)
Hotkey workspace 1 - Workspace 1 shows but switches instantly back to Workspace 2 (?!!)
Hotkey workspace 2 - Workspace 1 shows (?!!)
Are there any timeout values in your workspaces? I can't to reproduce this bug Sad What TLB version do you use?

Also, the workspace hotkeys works like the switchers. The first time you press the workspace shortcut - TLB activate it. The second time TLB activate the main toolbar. To disable the autoswitch workspace back to the main toolbar enter 0 in the timeout field.

- inshadow - 04-13-2008

Yuri Kobets Wrote:
Quote:Hotkey workspace 1 - Workspace 1 shows but switches instantly back to Workspace 2 (?!!)
Hotkey workspace 1 - Workspace 1 shows but switches instantly back to Workspace 2 (?!!)
Hotkey workspace 2 - Workspace 1 shows (?!!)
Are there any timeout values in your workspaces? I can't to reproduce this bug Sad What TLB version do you use?
The timeout is set to 0. I'm using version 4.2.
Did you try the exact sequence as I have posted?

Yuri Kobets Wrote:Also, the workspace hotkeys works like the switchers. The first time you press the workspace shortcut - TLB activate it. The second time TLB activate the main toolbar. To disable the autoswitch workspace back to the main toolbar enter 0 in the timeout field.
Yes - that I already found.

Re: Switch toolbar with hotkey - mls - 01-20-2012

Hey Yuri, i´m bumping this post coz I need to switch toolbars by hotkey but doing this using autosensing has different behaviour to "true" toolbar switching.

The problem is that autosensing leaves any open torn-off menus displayed when the new toolbar is activated - true toolbar switching does not.

A workaround is to refresh the 1st toolbar to close any open menus THEN activate the 2nd toolbar but this is a hassle.

I even contemplated using vbscript sendkeys to peform a true toolbar switch by sending the keystrokes required to select the toolbar from the Switch Toolbar context menu- it obviously would work but is pretty dirty.

btw, autosensing and toolbar switching in 5.6.3 beta are much more stable - I've had a couple of crashes (possibly unrelated) but it's stable enough not to bother me.

Thanks again
paul

RE: Switch toolbar with hotkey - Yuri Kobets - 01-21-2012

I'll add this feature.

RE: Switch toolbar with hotkey - mls - 01-22-2012

(01-20-2012, 04:10 AM)mls Wrote: Hey Yuri, i´m bumping this post coz I need to switch toolbars by hotkey but doing this using autosensing has different behaviour to "true" toolbar switching.

The problem is that autosensing leaves any open torn-off menus displayed when the new toolbar is activated - true toolbar switching does not.

A workaround is to refresh the 1st toolbar to close any open menus THEN activate the 2nd toolbar but this is a hassle.

I even contemplated using vbscript sendkeys to peform a true toolbar switch by sending the keystrokes required to select the toolbar from the Switch Toolbar context menu- it obviously would work but is pretty dirty.

btw, autosensing and toolbar switching in 5.6.3 beta are much more stable - I've had a couple of crashes (possibly unrelated) but it's stable enough not to bother me.

Thanks again
paul

Thanks Yuri