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Assigning a shortcut to Backslash does not work

Open cpmcgrath opened this issue 10 years ago • 2 comments

cpmcgrath avatar Jan 28 '15 12:01 cpmcgrath

Keys are a real pain because there's no good standard way to convert them to a meaningful description which take into account keyboard differences in regions let alone all the slight variations in regions (Please somebody tell me I'm wrong).

Backslash is mapped to OEMBackslash, which from my testing, isn't associated to any key on the standard English Keyboard.

The exposed key wanted here is Pipe

Still to decide what the best action here is.

  1. Remove Backslash - it's not on a standard English Keyboard and the description is misleading. But it might be removing a useful shortcut to other keyboards.
  2. Rename Shortcut - there's a chance that this could have backwards compatibility problems. Will need to test, but this could be preferable.
  3. Just leave it as is.

cpmcgrath avatar Jan 29 '15 04:01 cpmcgrath

Option 4 change the screen quite dramatically. Instead of using a drop down list, let the user enter the key and read the key and char from that.

cpmcgrath avatar Jan 29 '15 04:01 cpmcgrath