Re: [artworks] advice on repetititve grouping task
- From: Gav Crawford <gav@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "artworks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <artworks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2015 00:45:02 +0000
> On 14 Mar 2015, at 11:36 pm, Jim Nagel <aw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> John Rickman Iyonix wrote on 14 Mar:
>>> I have set Keystroke to perform "group" via the menu primary 3,
>>> secondary 5 when I press F6.
>
> And a bit later he wrote:
>> Got Keystroke to work by setting the Manual flag.
>> It does the grouping but unfortunately changes the tool to Rectangle,
>> the pointer to an asterisk and moves the pointer to the top of the
>> tool box.
>
> Odd. Keystroke doesn't do that here (Artworks 2.XI.01 on Armini
> 5.20). But I used Ctrl-# for my keystroke (because those keys are
> close together for the right hand, and unlikely to be used for
> anything else), whereas you used F6.
>
> Could it be that you have already defined F6 for something else, e.g.
> Artworks menu "Utilities > Set tool shortcut" ? I haven't got the
> Artworks cribsheet to hand to check whether F6 is otherwise used.
F6 is hard wired in ArtWorks to switch to the Rectangle tool. So you shouldn't
use that for a Keystroke key. Also the option to set tool Shortcuts works on
[TAB] followed by another key.
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