flip canvas short key

[davoodice2]

HI.
I recently open the Moho to test some futures. I noticed my previous custom short key (shift+ f) Does a flip canvas. I tried to change it back in short key editor, but I can't find flip canvas option there. I am pretty sure the developers forgot to add it there. So in brief:
Adding canvas short key to short key preferences window.

[Greenlaw]

Hi davoodice2,

Good to see you here again! It's been a while, hasn't it?

Pressing shift-f to flip the canvas in Moho 14.2 is working for me. This works when the Current Settings are set to either Default or my own MQC 13.5 settings. Does it not work for you when the Current Settings are set to Default?

Or have I misunderstood your post, and are you trying to assign a shift+f to a different command? If so, I'm guessing that shift-f is not available for reassignment by the user because it's an official 'built-in' shortcut now.

[hayasidist]

FWIW, the shortcuts (default and my custom) have the View/Flip Canvas command assigned to shift-F (14.2 Win 10) and it's in the View menu dropdown.

[davoodice2]

Hi davoodice2,

Good to see you here again! It's been a while, hasn't it?

Pressing shift-f to flip the canvas in Moho 14.2 is working for me. This works when the Current Settings are set to either Default or my own MQC 13.5 settings. Does it not work for you when the Current Settings are set to default?

Or have I misunderstood your post, and are you trying to assign a shift+f to a different command? If so, I'm guessing that shift-f is not available for reassignment by the user because it's an official 'built-in' shortcut now.

Hi there. Thank you, yes, I was working on 3D projects for a long time.
Previously I had assigned it to freeze pose and I And I was used to using it. Now In new version, I frequently flip canvas.and can't change this short key anymore.

[davoodice2]

And I'm really surprised that after so many years I still can't see the cancel button here and I have to apply the changes

[hayasidist]

yeah -- looks as though you can't change View / Flip Canvas in Edit K/B shortcuts.

Workaround: (Shortcuts are in a plain text JSON file so easy to edit manually)

Locate a keyboard shortcut file in your custom folders. If there isn't one, then use the Edit Shortcuts function to create one based on the default.
Open your custom keyboard shortcut file with a text editor
Find the block for "groupNameKey": "/Menus/View/View"
under that find the block for "actionDescriptionKey": "/Menus/View/EnableGrid"

scroll up to the "{" line that opens the Enable Grid block and paste the following block above it:

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				{
					"modifiers": "shift",
					"actionDescriptionKey": "/Menus/View/FlipCanvas",
					"boundKey": "F",
					"platform": "",
					"product": "",
					"readonly": false,
					"nodeTypeBranch": false
				},

Save the file (either to the same name or a different name as you choose) back in your custom folder.

[davoodice2]

yeah -- looks as though you can't change View / Flip Canvas in Edit K/B shortcuts.

Workaround: (Shortcuts are in a plain text JSON file so easy to edit manually)

Locate a keyboard shortcut file in your custom folders. If there isn't one, then use the Edit Shortcuts function to create one based on the default.
Open your custom keyboard shortcut file with a text editor
Find the block for "groupNameKey": "/Menus/View/View"
under that find the block for "actionDescriptionKey": "/Menus/View/EnableGrid"

scroll up to the "{" line that opens the Enable Grid block and paste the following block above it:

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				{
					"modifiers": "shift",
					"actionDescriptionKey": "/Menus/View/FlipCanvas",
					"boundKey": "F",
					"platform": "",
					"product": "",
					"readonly": false,
					"nodeTypeBranch": false
				},

Save the file (either to the same name or a different name as you choose) back in your custom folder.

Oh, thank you so much. I will try it.

[Greenlaw]

@Hayasidist, bookmarking your post!

I did not know this was possible. Good to know if I need to change the 'hardwired' shortcuts.

Thanks for the info, Paul!

[davoodice2]

yeah -- looks as though you can't change View / Flip Canvas in Edit K/B shortcuts.

Workaround: (Shortcuts are in a plain text JSON file so easy to edit manually)

Locate a keyboard shortcut file in your custom folders. If there isn't one, then use the Edit Shortcuts function to create one based on the default.
Open your custom keyboard shortcut file with a text editor
Find the block for "groupNameKey": "/Menus/View/View"
under that find the block for "actionDescriptionKey": "/Menus/View/EnableGrid"

scroll up to the "{" line that opens the Enable Grid block and paste the following block above it:

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				{
					"modifiers": "shift",
					"actionDescriptionKey": "/Menus/View/FlipCanvas",
					"boundKey": "F",
					"platform": "",
					"product": "",
					"readonly": false,
					"nodeTypeBranch": false
				},

Save the file (either to the same name or a different name as you choose) back in your custom folder.

It works, Great Hack. Thank you again.

[hayasidist]

Done some more digging on this.

Seems to be that if you have custom shortcut files that were created on 13.5 you'll not have the updates to the default factory set that came along with 14.

Bottom line: it may be worthwhile re-applying your custom updates to the most recent default set and archiving (discarding?) your old shortcut files. (And, for now at least, you may want to do this whenever Moho releases new Menu functions.)

Couple of "how to do that" options:
>>most straightforward is simply to note down or recall your custom updates and create a new file from the default set
>>The other is NOT recommended unless you're familiar with the internal structure of the keyboard shortcuts file, have many custom changes that would take a lot of typing to re-input and are competent with a text editor. If you've answered 'yes' to all three, this is a suggested approach: Make a copy of the factory shortcuts file in your own custom content directory and name it as the new version; open it and the shortcuts file you want to migrate from and selectively copy/paste from existing to new then save the new version.[/list]