hotkeys

grayncute · Post by **grayncute** » Thu Jul 07, 2005 12:24 pm

I changed the global activation for EQ to be

1st global `+1

2nd global `+2

3rd global `+3

this is not working and when I tried to change it back to
Ctrl+Alt+1 and so on (same as original setting) it would not work, any suggestions?

grayncute · Post by **grayncute** » Thu Jul 07, 2005 12:28 pm

no edit button, oh well, but anyways

I just added in the {HOTKEY} in the window headers

(I left first one as default Ctrl+Alt+1,
second one as `+1
third one as `+3

when I started up the profiles, what happened was the first profile showed as being Ctrl+Alt+1 (works)

2nd was ctrl+alt+4

3rd was ctrl+alt+5

so evidently it will not accept `+1 and so on for global, any idea on how to work around this?

Post by **Lax** » Thu Jul 07, 2005 12:29 pm

Global hotkeys are governed by Windows, not WinEQ, which means that they follow strict rules. The key combination for global hotkeys may consist of one key, plus any combination of "modifier" keys, which are WIN, CTRL, ALT, SHIFT, and no others. Which is why `+1 doesnt work

However, Ctrl+Alt+1 and such should work fine. Just make sure that the per-profile hotkeys are set to AUTO instead of custom, and you may need to restart WinEQ 2 after changing the global activation keys. Make sure they get saved, too.

grayncute · Post by **grayncute** » Thu Jul 07, 2005 12:36 pm

hmm, any way to change that in windows so taht it allows `+1?

grayncute · Post by **grayncute** » Thu Jul 07, 2005 12:36 pm

for example setting ` to be a command key

Post by **Lax** » Thu Jul 07, 2005 12:48 pm

No, not without working at Microsoft and redoing the entire way that Windows input API is designed.

` can be a hotkey, but cannot be a MODIFIER key. You can use CTRL+` all you want, but not `+1

grayncute · Post by **grayncute** » Thu Jul 07, 2005 12:53 pm

hmm, not even if you remap ` to be ctrl, all that would involve would be setting it to see ` keypresses as ctrl, been looking this up and I think I can manage to do that

Post by **Lax** » Thu Jul 07, 2005 1:28 pm

Then to WinEQ, your modifier key is still CTRL, so that would be CTRL+1

grayncute · Post by **grayncute** » Thu Jul 07, 2005 1:41 pm

yup. I did it soooo easily on my win 98 machine, but eh, that one does not run EQ lol, but win 2000 and later, you have to do it another way and I cannot seem to find them in the registery to change it manually, but I'm getting pretty close now, if you would like, when I figure it out I can PM it to you (I don't want to post stuff that would let newbies mess up their registry badly =p )

grayncute · Post by **grayncute** » Thu Jul 07, 2005 2:15 pm

ok, I found something that will do it just fine, it is a program called KeyTweak. it will remap keys for you, doesn't matter what key

website is http://webpages.charter.net/krumsick/ or you can download it from http://www.majorgeeks.com/download4161.html

One more question. can winEQ2 differentiate between right and left ctrl/alt or sees them as the same?

Post by **Lax** » Thu Jul 07, 2005 5:28 pm

WinEQ 2 can, but Windows doesnt for global hotkeys. As I said, it only counts them as WIN, CTRL, ALT, SHIFT

I believe WinEQ 2 is set up, though, to treat left and right the same.