nikivi
December 31, 2016, 10:23pm
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I want to make a simple hovering palette to open different websites.
I've searched on the forum and read the docs and still confused why it doesn't work.
I've made a palette here :
And added some actions :
Pressing my hotkey, doesn't bring up the palette however, in fact it does nothing. What I want it, I press a hotkey, and a palette of my macros shows up with my configures keypresses.
This feature definitely works, as I use it all the time.
Try a different hot key, and/or trigger from Status Menu for testing.
Otherwise, see Troubleshooting
I have had occasional instances where pressing the hotkey doesn’t show the palette. I can’t find a pattern in it. But stopping and starting the KM Engine always fixes it.
Let us know if this helps, because it really ought to work.
nikivi
December 31, 2016, 11:08pm
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It doesn’t.
Nothing happens and I tried it on multiple hotkeys already. All of them are not taken for sure.
I also restarted KM engine and that didn’t help.
Does this work?
Example.kmmacros (2.1 KB)
nikivi
December 31, 2016, 11:15pm
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No, nothing shows up as I think it should. It seems the entire palette thing is not working. I have this now :
OK, that's just strange. Try this:
You should be able to select it from the KM Status Menu. Check "Place palette under mouse" just to make sure it isn't hiding off the screen or something.
nikivi
December 31, 2016, 11:39pm
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@DanThomas that is strange.
That too does nothing. Nothing happens.
Sounds like something @peternlewis will have to help with.
You show your group as “Activated for one action when”.
That will not show a palette. It will activate the macro group, and you can press the contained macro triggers, but nothing will show on the screen.
Use “Show a palette for one action” instead.
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nikivi
January 2, 2017, 8:51pm
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Thank you Peter, this worked.
I am curious, since the palette does not show the keys that I mapped my macros to in the palette. Like these ones for example :
I would think that it would show the keys here :
This is solved by naming the macros with the hotkey trigger like so :
I am curious though, what is the best way to solve this issue? My solution works for me but still curious.
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Select the Group, then click on the "Palette Style" graphic, shown here:
This brings up the "Theme Editor". Check the "Trigger" checkbox, shown here:
That will cause the triggers to be shown in the palette.
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