Quote from SeattleUser on 02/08/09 at 14:21:12: being able to edit the EccoMagic hotkey assignments would make it possible to avoid any conflicts with hotkey assignments made other programs. This issue is becoming increasingly important because the various EccoMagic programs use so many hotkeys and because there is such a large and growing number of other programs that use hotkeys (including global hotkeys as well as local hotkeys).
A second way in which the ability to edit the hotkey assignments would be helpful is convenience and personal preference.
Yes, this is something have thought much about.
As much as possible the tools are designed to work on a WIDE variety of platforms and circumstances. Often times the user will not have the ability to write to disk, nor to the 'registry'. Even testing to do so may 'violate' the allowed program constraints and cause system to terminate running. For this reason as much as possible (and is not always possible), tools are designed not to write to disk nor registry.
Also as much as possible, try to code directly the hook used for hotkey. Allows a much wider range of machines to take advantage of tool.
Easy enough to include a hotkey selection option, but not so easy to do so in same version, ie. that will run on same (very wide) range of machines. You should be able to use most tools on Windows 95 to Windows 7, on systems with NO registry privileges and without any static memory storage.
100% agree that freely assignable hotkeys would be nice.
for now,
when registering any tool, can request whatever hotkey assignments desired,
and get a personalized version to fit your personal needs/desires.
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