Shortcut keys for Promote and Demote

[Laurence Glazier]

I am used to pressing Alt-Shift-Left and Alt-Shift-Right, and the corresponding Up and Down keys for moving tasks around my outline, but recently I have moved to a new laptop with an additional monitor. These keystroke make the external monitor image rotate, and I have a devil of a job restoring the monitor settings afterwards. I am trying to remember to click on the four blue arrow buttons at the top of my outline. As far as I can tell, these are among the few keystrokes in MLO which cannot be redefined. Generally it makes using MLO slower and more stressful.

Does anyone know how I could solve this issue? The graphics program, FortePivot, similarly offers no way to redefine its keystrokes, and an option to disable them does not seem to work. My computer is an Acer Ultrabook.

Thanks, L.

[Bedrudin]

Laurence,

My colleague at work has the same problem. I found a setting in the graphics card driver software to disable the monitor rotating. I suggest to search for this setting and to disable it if you don't use the rotating feature.

There are hotkeys in MLO. You can reassign different keys to various hotkey actions in Tools -> Options -> General Application Options -> Hotkeys. After a quick glance I didn't find an action "indent/outdent/move up/move down" there, though.

Regards,
Bedrudin

[Laurence Glazier]

Thanks for that Bedrudin. I keep my monitor in vertical position, portrait mode, to accommodate music with a large number of instruments. So probably I cannot risk disabling monitor rotation, as it would likely revert to landscape mode. Perhaps I should look into keyboard macros, if the programs can catch these keystrokes before they go to the monitor software.

Best

Laurence

[David Rees]

I definite agree these should be changeable in MLO. Indent/Outdent/Move Up/Move Down are used in lots of applications (Word, IDEs, vi, Project) and unfortunately are bound in different ways.

In the meantime I guess AutoHotKey is our only option (which is actually a challenge for me since it doesn't run inside Winery/Wine - though it does run instead of Parallels/VMware).  

d

[Stéph]

I agree that these should be Hotkeys.

 

Meanwhile, a lot of monitor drivers allow you to change the hotkey combinations for rotating the screen (Right-clicking on my desktop on my Dell allows me to do that if I select "graphics properties" rather than "graphics options"), so you could try and look for that feature on your Acer.

[David Rees]

4.1.1RC1 added toolbar buttons for Indent/Outdent/Up/Down, but unfortunately they are still not in the hot keys list. Audrey, as long as you tinkering with them could you please support custom hot key assignments?

Thanks,

dave