Adding text to customized keyboard shortcut

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Adding text to customized keyboard shortcut

Post by cmail » Wed Jan 21, 2009 12:20 pm

I want to try and tweak the command for adding a label during playback. Currently the shortcut Control-M adds a label while you are recording. I was wondering if anyone knows if its possible to add text to this by editing the XML file.
I was hoping that as well as creating a marker when the shortcut is pressed, that it would add a word to this marker.

So basically if I pressed ctrl-m a marker with the label 'forward' would be created.

Any suggestions greatly appreciated!

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Re: Adding text to customized keyboard shortcut

Post by waxcylinder » Wed Jan 21, 2009 3:54 pm

You should just be able to typoe the label text just after pressing the CTRL+M - it will help if you have zoomed out a bit first so that the cursor movement doesn't push your label of the screen window. It's a bit easier in 1.3, but it does work in 1.2 - I just tested it.

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Re: Adding text to customized keyboard shortcut

Post by cmail » Thu Jan 22, 2009 11:50 am

Thanks!
You're right. On 1.3 you can type a label as soon as ctrl-m is pressed while its still recording. Excellent! I was using 1.2

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