Custom keyboard mapping for shortcut keys

[Sleuthgame]

On an AZERTY keyboard, the [ and ] are complicated short keys : it's in fact Alt Gr - ]
It make the next color / previous color short-keys quite useless while painting.

Can you double it with ( and ) ? It's the sames keys, but with direct one key.

If I am right there are not used somewhere else.

[mriale]

Actually, I could add custom key remapping functionality and allow people to customize the keys for their own keyboard.

Changing the name of this issue.

[Sleuthgame]

If you can do it with a simple ascii file containing all shortkeys (dpaint like, azerty, promotion like, photoshop like), and just we browse and select them with a simple menu.

You don't need to create an whole UX for that.

fonction	unicode	preview
pipette	02C	,

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[mriale]

Added support for custom keyboard mapping but with no GUI yet.

You can add this to the bottom of the .pydpainter file in your home directory:

hotkey_(=[
hotkey_)=]

With this in place, if you press ( it will press [ instead which decrements the current color index. Likewise, ) will press ] which increments the color.

Also, the hotkeys are parsed for combinations like this:

Config file	Desc
hotkey_ctrl-c=shift-q	Quit the program when CTRL-C is pressed
hotkey_shift-tab=p	Bring up the palette requestor when you press Shift-Tab

[Sleuthgame]

Nice roundabout !
It's working.

What is the syntax for 1,2,... on the numeric keypad ?

[mriale]

I just added these keys for the numeric keypad:

kp0
kp1
kp2
kp3
kp4
kp5
kp6
kp7
kp8
kp9
kp.
kp/
kp*
kp-
kp+
kpenter
kpequals

So for example:

hotkey_kp7=[
hotkey_kp8=]

[Sleuthgame]

Trop cool !!!

Merci ! Thanks you !

[Sleuthgame]

Tested. It works great. I let you document this. In fact, IDK if we have a part about the .pydpainter config file ?

[mriale]

I saw that after saving the configuration, the numeric keypad symbols didn't write correctly to the .pydpainter config file. I fixed them to substitute the proper names in.

[Sleuthgame]

Strange. I assigned kp1 and 2 to replace [ and ] and it works. Can't test anymore until the we, sorry.