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Can't customise hotkey for " undo"

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#1

Hi, I wanna change the undo function to “ctrl+P”(I’m lefthanded) instead of “ctrl+Z”, I used the “alt+ctrl” method, it does work but only for the first undo, for the following undo’s the hotkey changes back to ctrl+z, I did the whole save and store hotkeys stuff, I’ve tried changing other keys as well they work fine, although sometimes they reset to the default setup … please help

#2

You can do it by editing the StartupHotkeys.txt file. First, take a look at this page in the online docs:

http://docs.pixologic.com/user-guide/keyboard-shortcuts/defaulthotkeys-file/

You’ll see at the bottom of the page that you can add code for the default undo hotkeys. When you store a hotkey for the Undo/Redo hotkeys using the Ctrl+Alt method the actual undo number gets stored along with it. This is what causes the hotkey to fail, sooner or later. So what you need to do is:

  1. Assign the hotkeys you want to use using the Ctrl+Alt method and being sure to store the hotkeys by pressing Preferences>Hotkeys>Store.
  2. Open the StartupHotkeys.txt file in Notepad as described in the link above.
  3. Find the entries that list your new hotkeys for Undo/Redo
  4. Make sure the number that is after the UNDO (but before the comma) is removed so that, for example:

[EDIT:UNDO 18,624] // Ctrl+P
becomes

[EDIT:UNDO,624] // Ctrl+P
6. Save the file and restart ZBrush.

HTH

#3

Hi, thx for the reply, I’ve followed the instruction, it works but I noticed there’s like 2 or 3 undo’s in zbrsuh, how can I bind them to the same hot key, I tried assiging different hotkeys for different undo’s inside zbrush and then change them to “ctrl+p” inside the text file like this:

[EDIT:UNDO,556] // Ctrl+P [EDIT:TOOL:UNDO,621] // Ctrl+P

but when loading the changed hotkeys zbrush resets to the default hotkeys, is there a way to do this are there any hotkey editors I can use to resolve this problem … thx

#4

That won’t work. Firstly, you must have the entries on separate lines. And secondly the “// Ctrl+P” bit is just a comment and doesn’t do anything. The number after the comma is the hotkey numerical code read by ZBrush. You can have the same hotkey for the two UNDOs:

[EDIT:UNDO,624] // Ctrl+P

[EDIT:TOOL:UNDO,624] // Ctrl+P

and another hotkey can be used for both REDOs. See the bottom of that page link I gave you.

#5

Thx, it’s working