Hi there,
After taking some months away from Rhino; I’m back to it. However, I’ve forgotten many shortcuts/aliases.
Is there a way to preview the shortcut for a command when hovering over the command’s button (see image)
Cheers,
Jeremy
Our current GUI does (unfortunately) not have the ability to show shortcuts for commands in tooltips.
Hi Nathan, thanks for your reply.
I am no software engineer, but I’m guessing that perhaps the parameters behind the language used for the GUI restrict the possible implementation of such a feature?
Cheers,
Jeremy
When you click on a toolbar button you can see the macro that is executed by looking at the command line
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Hi Steve,
Do you mean when you click a button, the command macro which is executed is shown in the command line?
If so, I can see this indeed.
The question I am wondering is if there’s a way to see which alias or shortcut has been set to execute that command macro.
I have many aliases and time causes me to forget! The wish is for a quicker way to
associate the command macro with the set alias than going into the Rhino menu each time.
Cheers,
Jeremy
Note that if it is toolbar buttons you are talking about, you can put anything you want in as a tooltip - including the macro or script name that it runs…
If it’s a typed alias, where would you imagine the ‘tooltip’ would show up? At what moment? (considering that the alias doesn’t execute until you have finished typing all the letters). If you type CD - does it show you the alias for CD? What about “CDO”?
I have short aliases for those that I use frequently and can remember. For the rest (mostly scripts) I use some sort of full name that actually reminds me what the script does. You don’t need to type out the full name, just enough letters to see it in the autocomplete list.
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Thanks Helvetosaur,
I think you’ve clarified that it’s not as straightforward as I had imagined.
I think that perhaps for single commands for which the button is available in the toolbar; like polyline etc., a tooltip could appear with any assigned shortcut or alias. Not sure if that would be possible though.
Another idea could be to have a very quick access to the aliases/shortcuts menu through an original shortcut. With that menu open and the ability to sort/find, one could quickly see what is assigned as a recap.
Best,
Jeremy
This is already possible, you can add/modify any tooltip by editing the button:
I guess that is a request to have the alias list as a panel…? @wim
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Thanks for this. I can see now how the tooltip can be manually customised with text. Perhaps for this to be automated with the assigned shortcut alias could be beneficial, but I don’t know if this is possible.
To have the aliases and shortcuts lists at quick availability and with searching would be beneficial. This could be by having a searchable panel, or a quick shortcut to their menu in the options.
Perhaps the aliases and keyboard menu pages could be combined as they function quite similarly?
Hypothetical example, I’ve got a huge list of them, and I might vaguely remember the command had ‘surface’ something… I can type surface, and it lists all command macros/shortcuts assigned linked with surface… I can then quickly see the relationship.
Similarly, I could remember, that part of the macro was ‘CR’… something. When I type CR in the search, it shows all the CR____ Aliases/macros.
Cheers
Not sure if I’m missing something, but this is already how the command-line in Rhino works. Type in ZE and it shows all aliases and macros that contain the string ZE.
Hi Nathan,
thanks for pointing that out. I think that this is not quite what I’m thinking.
- the user can’t see what macro ZE runs, or ZEA etc.
- The command-line only shows what is searched for. The keyboard/alias pages show what macros/shortcuts have been setup already without searching for them. That means that the user might just see the command and remember. A searching filter would help reduce the list down to the candidates for the user based their fragment input; like ZE or Zoom… (extents).