Possible to denote "up/down" keys in conflict palletes?

[zeltak]

Hi guys

So finally after 2 years of using Keyboard Maestro i "see the light" of conflict palletes and have started moving a of my palletes to use this method

one thing i cant understand is apart from alphanumeric characters that can be used to quick launch macros based on the first letter of the macro, if one wants to use "up/down" keys would that be possible?

ie:

thx alot in advance

Z

[tiffle]

In the recent mention of this in this forum the master said:

@peternlewis

That is unlikely to ever happen. Macro Palettes do not have keyboard focus. They very deliberately do not, so that they do not interfere with what is happening in the target application. I could fake it somehow, and use hot keys for arrow keys, but Macro Palettes have never had any concept of “selection” so I doubt I will ever do that.

Conflict Palettes already have a mechanism for selecting the entries from the keyboard - they highlight the unique letter position to allow you to filter/select the desired entry.

Which is not the response you were hoping for, I’d guess.

[MartinPacker]

I’m not sure I even like your strategy of prefixing the names with characters. I get that “B” and “M” are especially problematic for you. But I would have named the actions with eg “Music” at the end rather than the beginning.

(I have a few cases, most notably Ctrl+v, where I have to type a second key to choose in a conflict palette situation.)

[zeltak]

Thx guys

@MartinPacker, I’m not sure I follow your idea, can you perhaps give some examples of such Conflict pallets? For example how do you create these pause with music at the end?

Best

Z

[MartinPacker]

I literally mean to make the string "Music" be the end of the action name - rather than the beginning. Then you will have fewer cases where you have to type more than the first character. Likewise the strings "MLT" and "Backup".