Activate Distance by keyboard shortcut

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jooogger
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Activate Distance by keyboard shortcut

Post by jooogger » Sun Feb 14, 2021 3:17 pm

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When user activated LIne → Parralel (LP), there’s two input fields - Distance and Number. Keyboard shortcut Alt-N activated Number input field very well, but shortcut Alt-D activate menu Draw instead. So user forced to point Distance input field by mouse.

That’ because conflicting letter D.

I've created bug https://www.ribbonsoft.com/bugtracker/i ... sk_id=2188

but may be there's other solution (may be unknown to me shortcut)?

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Re: Activate Distance by keyboard shortcut

Post by Husky » Sun Feb 14, 2021 6:35 pm

jooogger wrote:
Sun Feb 14, 2021 3:17 pm
When user activated LIne → Parralel (LP), there’s two input fields - Distance and Number. Keyboard shortcut Alt-N activated Number input field very well, but shortcut Alt-D activate menu Draw instead. So user forced to point Distance input field by mouse.
That’ because conflicting letter D.
Actually - the default shortcut to focus on the option bar is Ctrl+Space or ⌃Space depending on the OS ...

https://qcad.org/archives/shortcuts/shortcuts_en.pdf
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Re: Activate Distance by keyboard shortcut

Post by jooogger » Sun Feb 14, 2021 7:22 pm

Husky wrote:
Sun Feb 14, 2021 6:35 pm
Actually - the default shortcut to focus on the option bar is Ctrl+Space or ⌃Space depending on the OS ...

https://qcad.org/archives/shortcuts/shortcuts_en.pdf

Fine! It's good to add tooltip "Ctrl-Space" to first input field.

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