A way to remove the F1 Help Shortcut?!?!?

[agroni]

Hi there,

I was just wondering if there is a way to remove the shortcut for the F1 Help menu??
I use the F2, F3 amd F4 for other functions and it happens often that i touch the F1 and the Help Window starts. It is very annoying and i would like to remove it! Tried with the shortcuts in archicad but this one is blocked

Can someone give me a hint?
thanx

[Link]

Nope. It is a non-customizable shortcut. You can check this and others of it's kind by Showing the shortcuts in a Browser, through your Work Environemnt settings. They're at the bottom of the list.

Cheers,
Link.

[Anonymous]

You should give a hint of your ArchiCAD version and operating system first ... on Mac you can override some of these.

[agroni]

Juha wrote:
You should give a hint of your ArchiCAD version and operating system first ... on Mac you can override some of these.

I work on Archicad 11 and on Windows XP

[Link]

Juha wrote:
You should give a hint of your ArchiCAD version and operating system first ... on Mac you can override some of these.

Hi Juha,

Can you please clarify which of the non-customizable shortcuts you can override? I hate giving crap advice.

Cheers,
Link.

[Rod Jurich]

Link wrote:

Juha wrote:
/..... ... on Mac you can override some of these.

Can you please clarify which of the non-customizable shortcuts you can override? I hate giving crap advice.

Speaking only about the F1 key.

Link, Juha is correct, in that on MAC you can assign a shortcut for the F1 key.

I've used this key to Toggle - Set Reference Level for some time now.

There have been other posts I believe, saying that 3rd party apps may be able to override the F1 key in windows.
Maybe someone from the "dark side" will comment

[Link]

Thanks Rod

I guess in relation to F1 on a Mac, that makes sense since the shortcut for help is Command+?. But are you actually able to overwrite the Help shortcut? Or overwrite any other non-customizable keys?

Cheers,
Link.

[Anonymous]

Hello Link,

Link wrote:
I hate giving crap advice.

I think that no advice should be given without proper knowledge of the problem -> as you see in this case the platforms differ greatly.

I think that you should update your signature as well as the others who have 'null' signature.

Here are a couple of screen captures of the Mac key customization (sorry for the finnish language).

Customization is made in the 'System preferences' -> 'Keyboard and mouse'. Method works with function keys too.




Hope this helps + all the best regards, Juha

[Rod Jurich]

Juha wrote:
/..Here are a couple of screen captures of the Mac key customization (sorry for the finnish language).
Customization is made in the 'System preferences' -> 'Keyboard and mouse'. Method works with function keys too./..

Juha thanks for the System prefs tip, now that I'm using dell screens it has enabled me to have F14 & F15 to add to my short cut schemes.

Sorry, no images visible, Juha.

Link wrote:
/....I guess in relation to F1 on a Mac, that makes sense since the shortcut for help is Command+?./.....

Link, this is odd, as I've never tried to use that help shortcut in AC 'til now. And using the default WE there is no response to Command+?.
Command+/, is all that is possible by way of key input, but that has no effect at all.

But none of this will help agroni's F1 windows problem.

Finally, have had no need to try overriding any other locked shortcuts.

[Ben Odonnell]

Rod,
I can confirm your problem isn't local. It doesn't work here either.

Ben