topic Re: Archicad 10 - Removing F1 shortcut key in Modeling

Archicad 10 - Removing F1 shortcut key

Anonymous — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 10:53:18 GMT

Hello everybody.

Does anyone know how to remove the shortcut for F1 key (the "help" shortcut).
I've managed to do that by deleting the "help" folder in Archicad's installation directory. But after installing an addon from Cadimage, the shortcut for F1 changed to its initial state. I've uninstalled the addon, deleted all info about it in the registry ... but I can't seem to solve the problem. Hitting the F1 key brings up the annoying help menu.
Could anyone tell me what to do? (maybe editing a registry key that I don't know about, or some settings in Archicad, ...)

Thank you.

Adi Tudoreanu

Re: Archicad 10 - Removing F1 shortcut key

Anonymous — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 21:37:38 GMT

adytc wrote:
Hello everybody.

.... Hitting the F1 key brings up the annoying help menu.
Could anyone tell me what to do? ...

Thank you.

Adi Tudoreanu

Don't hit the F1 key

Re: Archicad 10 - Removing F1 shortcut key

Eduardo Rolon — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 21:47:46 GMT

Is not AC's fault, F1 is the default shortcut for accessing "Help" for all applications within Windows.

Re: Archicad 10 - Removing F1 shortcut key

Anonymous — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 23:50:11 GMT

Do what I did. Pull the F1 key off your keyboard and put it into your file cabinet!!!!

Re: Archicad 10 - Removing F1 shortcut key

Rod Jurich — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 00:24:14 GMT

s2art wrote:
adytc wrote:
Hello everybody.
.... Hitting the F1 key brings up the annoying help menu.
Could anyone tell me what to do? ...
Adi Tudoreanu
Don't hit the F1 key

Or buy a Mac

Re: Archicad 10 - Removing F1 shortcut key

Anonymous — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 00:32:24 GMT

In reflection what he needs to do is get used to not using the Esc key. I'm guessing(from experience) that this is someone coming from autocad. Just remember that if you have something highlighted in AC just click in an empty space and it deselects all objects.

Re: Archicad 10 - Removing F1 shortcut key

Anonymous — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 05:44:57 GMT

I have my ESCape function on my mouse, works great!

Re: Archicad 10 - Removing F1 shortcut key

Anonymous — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 06:30:35 GMT

s2art wrote:
Don't hit the F1 key

Hehe

Thanks for the tip, but it's hard to get rid of this habit, after using the CTRL+F1 shortcut for a couple of years.

Re: Archicad 10 - Removing F1 shortcut key

Anonymous — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 06:33:29 GMT

ejrolon wrote:
Is not AC's fault, F1 is the default shortcut for accessing "Help" for all applications within Windows.

Sorry, but I don't agree.
In AC9 it was possible to reassign a new shortcut to F1 key.

Re: Archicad 10 - Removing F1 shortcut key

Anonymous — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 06:42:16 GMT

4thorns wrote:
In reflection what he needs to do is get used to not using the Esc key. I'm guessing(from experience) that this is someone coming from autocad. Just remember that if you have something highlighted in AC just click in an empty space and it deselects all objects.

Basically yes, I'm coming from Autocad. But that was some years ago. Meanwhile, I've worked using F1 shortcut in AC9 (with a reassigned shortcut, of course). In AC10, that wasn't possible anymore; but I've discovered that if I deleted the "Help" directory in Archicad's installation folder, I could redefine CTRL+F1 shortcut (the F1 shortcut couldn't be redefined, after all). Still, that worked pretty good for me. But recently I've installed the addon I was talking about and all the things went back to original state. Uninstalling the addon didn't work. Hitting CTRL+F1 brings up help menu.
So ... I guess I should try reinstalling Archicad.

Thank you anyway for your support.

Adi Tudoreanu

Re: Archicad 10 - Removing F1 shortcut key

Anonymous — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 06:45:00 GMT

Rod wrote:
Or buy a Mac

Easier said than done.

Re: Archicad 10 - Removing F1 shortcut key

Anonymous — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 07:10:14 GMT

I too was frustrated when I found it was no longer possible to reassign F1 key in AC10. I have been using this key as a shortcut for a long time, because it is closest to my left hand and I am holding the mouse with my right one.

There are many of us who very rarely use Help, so, please, Graphisoft, get rid of this silly fixed shortcut! We are grown-up men and we can decide how to arrange our workspace by ourselves!

Re: Archicad 10 - Removing F1 shortcut key

Anonymous — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 08:58:55 GMT

kliment wrote:
I too was frustrated when I found it was no longer possible to reassign F1 key in AC10. I have been using this key as a shortcut for a long time, because it is closest to my left hand and I am holding the mouse with my right one.

There are my of us who very rarely use Help, so, please, Graphisoft, get rid of this silly fixed shortcut! We are grown-up men and we can decide how to arrange our workspace by ourselves!

I totally agree with you. Hopefully they will change that in the near future.

Re: Archicad 10 - Removing F1 shortcut key

Laszlo Nagy — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 15:18:08 GMT

4thorns wrote:
In reflection what he needs to do is get used to not using the Esc key.

Actually the Esc key has a good functionality in ArchiCAD. It escapes more and more of current input/selection steps as it is pressed several times.
It is not a bad feature in my opinion, so it should not be abandoned.

Re: Archicad 10 - Removing F1 shortcut key

Anonymous — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 01:30:56 GMT

I too was used to using F1 and Ctrl+F1 for shortcuts so this is what I did:

Download a program called Key Tweak from here: http://webpages.charter.net/krumsick/ (Windows 2000/XP)

This program lets you reassign your keys. I reassigned F1 to F9 and vise-versa, then set up my shortcuts in Archicad to work with F9 and Ctrl+F9 now when I hit F1 the computer beleives I hit F9 and everything works as it did before. I still retain F1 help functionality by hitting F9.

Remember to disable the program if you use the Function keys in other programs. Also this would make a really cool April 1st joke, you could really mess around with someones keyboard.

Re: Archicad 10 - Removing F1 shortcut key

Anonymous — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 02:10:09 GMT

Actually the Esc key has a good functionality in ArchiCAD. It escapes more and more of current input/selection steps as it is pressed several times.
It is not a bad feature in my opinion, so it should not be abandoned.

You're right Laz. One of the things I like about it is being able to escape from a command without deselecting all the objects I have selected. Not so in Autocad. I had it in my head that the original post referred to accidentally hitting the F1 key when reaching for the escape key. I'd hit esc a thousand times a day and half of them resulted in the help window...Thus, F1 in the file cabinet!! I still think one should work on the "clicking an empty space" method so as to not have to reactivate a tool every 2 seconds. Doug

Re: Archicad 10 - Removing F1 shortcut key

Anonymous — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 21:10:49 GMT

I had that problem too. I solved it by "Key Tweak" program. It is problem in Autocad and many programs. Go to Brewer Davidson's adress and download it. It's the best and free solution then you don't have to buy a Mac

Re: Archicad 10 - Removing F1 shortcut key

Anonymous — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 05:35:00 GMT

Brewer wrote:
I too was used to using F1 and Ctrl+F1 for shortcuts so this is what I did:

Download a program called Key Tweak from here: http://webpages.charter.net/krumsick/ (Windows 2000/XP)

This program lets you reassign your keys. I reassigned F1 to F9 and vise-versa, then set up my shortcuts in Archicad to work with F9 and Ctrl+F9 now when I hit F1 the computer beleives I hit F9 and everything works as it did before. I still retain F1 help functionality by hitting F9.

Remember to disable the program if you use the Function keys in other programs. Also this would make a really cool April 1st joke, you could really mess around with someones keyboard.

Thank you so much Brewer for your tip. It seems it's just what I was looking for.

Adi Tudoreanu

Re: Archicad 10 - Removing F1 shortcut key

Anonymous — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 05:36:48 GMT

ogabson wrote:
I had that problem too. I solved it by "Key Tweak" program. It is problem in Autocad and many programs. Go to Brewer Davidson's adress and download it. It's the best and free solution then you don't have to buy a Mac

Thank you for the advice. I'll definitely give it a try.

Adi Tudoreanu