How can we stop 'space bar' hotkey? This marks the task as Complete

[Steve Gledhill]

I have lost count of the number of tasks that I have failed to complete because I have previously accidentally marked as complete by simply pressing the space bar. This is a major fail in an otherwise great product! It makes me nervous when using the desktop client and is unnerving.

I see no way to re-assign the complete task shortcut (indeed I don't even see it listed in the hotkeys so I found the reason for my 'missing' tasks by accident!).

I have also tried to assign space bar to another activity but that is not allowed.

I use very few of the short cuts / hotkeys in MLO and would happily disable ALL hotkeys if I can't find a way to stop this annoying behaviour. I can't find how to disable hotkeys either.

I have Autohotkey installed but I can't even think of a way of using this to stop this annoying and dangerous behaviour.

Does anyone have any solutions or share my frustration?

thank you

Steve

MLO 4.2.2.2395 FINAL

Windows 8.1

[pottster]

Hi Steve,

Using AHK you can toggle the spacebar on/off, which would allow you to quickly revert to using it for text entry.

Try the following script (which uses the ScrollLock key to toggle) : -

ScrollLock::Hotkey, Space, Toggle

Space::

MsgBox Space key is disabled. Press ScrollLock to enable.

Return

[Steve Gledhill]

Thanks Pottster

that certainly works as described and has taught me a useful technique for Autohotkey. Unfortunately I am still too careless when I'm editing and adding tasks. Particularly on my laptop.

[Lucas D]

I am also looking for a solution to this problem. There must be a way! Please keep us posted.

[Liz]

Wow, so glad I saw this!  I kept wondering why sometimes tasks would be marked complete even though I never clicked the checkbox - it was very troublesome and one of the main reasons I almost gave up on MLO.  Now I know hitting the space bar is the reason for that (which I do to bring my computer out of screensaver mode).  I would also like a way to turn this off but knowing that's the reason is at least a start!

[Steve Gledhill]

I always use Shift or CTRL to bring my PC back from standby. I see many people use the 'enter' key and I worry every time. 

To be fair, Windows should be clever enough to ignore the key press when the screen is not visible but we're stuck with it.

[Wallace Gilbraith]

I shoogle my mouse around without pressing any of the keys on it :- )



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Subject: [MLO] Re: How can we stop 'space bar' hotkey? This marks the task as Complete

[pottster]

Only a Scot could use a word like shoogle! Never heard of it before, thanks. I thought it was a search engine for footwear ;-)

[chrisleeuk]

As far as I can determine this is a bug, or at very least an omission.

Having the ability to configure the hot keys and then having a hot key that can't be configured is clearly wrong.

I don't think this has been a specific issue for me personally (as far as I'm aware), but I can see why it could cause vanishing tasks if you accidentally hit space.