No Key Shortcut...

 From:  Michael Gibson
35.23 In reply to 35.22 
> is it possible To make some numeric command aliases?

These are just single-letter shortcut keys that we're talking about here, I think you may be talking about multiple key command name aliases as might be used in a command-line interface program? MoI doesn't have a command-line style interface so there isn't any place to type in these types of sequences.

Single number shortcut keys actually do kind of work right now, but it's a bug, they're not supposed to work because most of the time MoI can use numeric input right away - for instance if you're drawing a line and you type "5,2 [enter]", you will place the current point at the coordinates 5,2 , you don't have to click somewhere or do anything special before typing in the numbers. That's why they aren't going to be allowed as shortcut keys (once the bug is fixed). If there is a command running that takes numeric input as one of its parameters (example: circle with a radius), then typing a number will put it directly into the option for the command instead of in the point coordinate box.

However, you can still use the number pad for some shortcuts if you turn Num Lock off, this will then make the keypad generate non-number characters, such as Page Up, Home, End, etc... These can be assigned as shortcuts in the .ini file (as described earlier in this thread) using these labels: UpArrow, DownArrow, LeftArrow, RightArrow, Home, End, PageUp, PageDown, Insert, Delete, Backspace.


But really one big effort in MoI's interface was actually to set it up so that you don't need to touch the keyboard to do anything at all... I didn't ignore the keyboard completely, like there is the support for keyboard shortcuts as in this thread, and entering numeric data should work quite well since it sends the numbers to the right spot without further clicks, but if you really like to use a command-line interface with hundreds of different aliases, that's a lot different from how MoI works.

- Michael