Cliff Cawley Wrote:Hi all,
The reason for the forced Ctrl+Alt if you only press a single button, is quite simple. Its for GLOBAL hotkeys. If you bind say P to play in Xion then every time you type the letter P in Word, or Firefox, or whatever, you will instead trigger Xion to Play. Global Hotkeys are supposed to have some form of modifier applied to them. Previous versions never enforced this, when they should have. It was merely an oversight on my part.
This shouldn't effect those of us who have non-configurable media keys, which are static and unable to include SHIFT or CTRL or ALT. It only inputs what it is ("P" for instance), and when Xion is forcing it to input Ctrl + Alt It doesn't work at all. I can't hold Shift and press the media key because that doesn't work either. I also never had a problem with it starting/stopping when my media keys were used in previous versions. All I'm asking is a simple checkbox or option button that would allow this to be disabled, perhaps even include a warning? I can't keep using Xion if I can't change songs with my media keys..
Hypothetically, If it's going to start and stop a song every time I push P, suppose that's the intended outcome that I desire? Is that so wrong?
I even added a short piece of text at the top of the Global Hot Keys tab that says
Global Hotkeys will work even when Xion is not the active window. You should include some modifiers such as Ctrl and Shift instead of using just single keys.
I'm not forcing the Ctrl + Alt, as you could press just Ctrl + P and it will allow that instead.
At some point I need to add the ability to use normal hotkeys, that AREN'T global. That will of course mean that the Xion window needs to have focus in order to use them though.
Hope that clears up any confusion.
Cliff
I realize the logic behind this, however it is entirely preventing me from using my hotkeys. My keyboard doesn't input "P" into whatever I have open when I push Next with my media buttons. It never has. I also never had a problem before this was added. My global hotkeys always worked just fine whether Xion was in focus or not. I am unable to do a combination of keys with my Media buttons. I don't want a string of keys, just one.
You may not be forcing Ctrl + Alt specifically, but you ARE forcing some combination of keys which breaks my media buttons entirely.
The non-global hotkeys wouldn't be something I would use if my global ones worked. It doesn't seem that appealing to me at..
Having to minimize my application/game to change the song is really killing my love for Xion!
It was merely an oversight on my part.
I believe that wasn't an oversight on your part at all. I think it was a feature, and one I used more than any other.
PLEASE! I'm on my knees here..