Ocular Plugin: Hotkeys on non-US/UK keyboards

[herbraab]

Maybe it's just me, but I can't find any keys to change the oculars or telescopes on a German keyboard...

2010-01-29T23:10:09
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Ocular plugin - press Command-o to toggle eyepiece view mode. Press ALT-o for configuration.
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[treaves (treaves)]

The hotkeys are listed in the Help dialog. I've not updated the WIKI yet. The keys are the '[' and ']' keys, with the Alt & Command modifies (Ctrl for non-Mac users).

[herbraab (hraab2006)]

I know that the hotkeys are listed in the Help dialog. However, on a German keyboard, '[' is 'Ctrl'+'8', and ']' is 'Ctrl'+'9'. So, obviously, one can't press 'Ctrl'+'[' (that would mean pressing 'Ctrl'+'Ctrl'+'8')...

[dobson85 (b2936932)]

Hi.

I use a german keyboard, too. Just press "Shift + Ctrl" at the same time to switch your keyboard from german to english.
After you have done that, you can use the ocular plugin without any problems. The german keys "ü" and "+ *" represent the "]" and "]" keys.

[dobson85 (b2937850)]

"Shift + Alt" <<<<<<<<

Sorry, "Shift + Ctrl" is wrong.

[herbraab (hraab2006)]

Sorry, I still can't get it to work. Pressing "Shift + Ctrl" does not change anything here on my system (Windows 7).

Wouldn't it be possible to simply use hotkeys that are available with any keyboard layout?

[dobson85 (b2937850)]

Hello.

As I wrote before, "Shift + Ctrl" was a mistake.
The right combination is "Shift + Alt".

This works on my Windows XP system.

[herbraab (hraab2006)]

None of the two shortcuts seems to work on Windows 7. I assume that the " Alternative User Input Services" (ctfmon.exe) handels this on Windows XP, but that is apparently no longer part of Windows 7.

[herbraab (hraab2006)]

Still can't toggle the oculars or telescopes in version 0.10.5 on my german keyboard. :-(

[Fred_76 (fmichaud76-public)]

It also happens with the french keyboard... and many other non american keyboards such as italian, spanish, german, french canadian, arabic, french belgium, cyrillic, danish, finnish, japanese, korean, dutch, norvegian, portugese, swedish ....

Therefore the Ocular plugin can only be used in a convenient way by english and american people only, i.e. a very minor part of the world.

Please urgently update the plugin in order to allow easy selection of oculars, DSLR and telescopes. One way would be to draw a small screen out of the pointed area, and let the user choose which setting he needs by clicking on it.

Best regard

Fred (neither american nor english... so frustrated by Ocular)

[Peter Mousley (scrupeus)]

This bug has been reported by several people using German, Italian and French keyboard layouts.

[treaves (treaves)]

The committed code allows for key bindings to be edited.