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Key Tips
In an attempt to improve the ability to use Cantabile from a PC keyboard, I've added support to SkinLib for key tips. Key tips are like tool tips except they show available key combinations. They're an excellent solution for when there are lots of user-interface elements as they allow multiple character short-cuts.
The following sequence shows how key tips work. After pressing Alt key top level key tips are displayed:
In this case there are two key tips starting with "M", so after pressing "M", all non-matching key tips are removed, and just those starting with "M" displayed:
On pressing "L" (ie: after having typed Alt+M+L), the keytips for the items contained in the Master Levels panel are displayed:
Posted on April 17, 2007
John says:
Hi,
Thanks for all your efforts, I check this page often....
Two questions though,
1) Would it be possible to choose which items are shown in the VST window - sometimes a very narrow vst is displayed in a very wide window, just because the toolbar has to fit everything in.
2) Can you offer a beta version "every now and again" for paid customers?
If you are open to suggestions... A preset manager something like Mini-Host would warrant Twice your asking price... If it worked reliably.
Thanks again.
John Golding.