mb on June 17th 2008
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Keyboard shortcuts

Otherwise this application is great

I find that RW is excellent at making icons for all Windows OS's. However, I am constantly frustrated by the lack of a few keyboard shortcuts.

When you are producing dozens of icons in sequence keyboard shortcuts make the job much slicker. I hope a future update will help with some of this.

Example: Copy 48x48 image from photoshop, paste into RW icon editor, Alt+F (Would expect file menu to open, instead the pasted image moves down the image 2 pixels!)
ESC key on Open/Save dialog (does not function as Cancel)

OK, perhaps this a bit picky, but so much of this application is so slick that these sorts of things show up.

A couple more suggestions:

Allow icons to be loaded directly from 'Opened With' RW in Windows explorer. (Associating ICO files just loads the welcome screen.)

Saving a new icon will not add it to the recent list on the file menu.

Vlasta on June 17th 2008 0

Hi mb, thanks for the post. I'd like to help you to resolve the issues, but I might need a bit of help from you in some cases.

First, I have checked the Alt+F issue and you are right, if there is a floating selection, the shortcut does not work as it should. It will be fixed in next version. Right now, please press Enter to unfloat the selection and press Alt+F after that. (Or use Ctrl+S directly if what you wanted was to save the document.)

Second, if you want more shortcuts, it may be possible to add them to the current version by just reconfiguring it. The configuration is a bit messy, because it is possible to configure virtually everything, but it is also hard to find the one item to change. Please let me know which shortcuts would you like to have and I can prepare an updated configuration for you and other people with similar interests.

The ESC key is indeed not working in the open dialog (but works in the save dialog), because of the unconventional nature of the open process (Alt+F4 closes the whole window). I will consider making the ESC key close windows without an open document in the next version.

I am somewhat puzzled by the last two suggestions, because they should already work (they work on my computer, but that is of no use to you ;-)). Maybe associating .ico files again from the Tools menu fixes the problem of not opening the .ico file double-clicked in Explorer. As for not adding saved icon to the recently used files list, I have no idea what could have gone wrong. Is it happening in all situations?

Regards...

mb on June 23rd 2008 0

Vlasta,

On the subject of opening icons from Double-Click, the do launch the RW application, but not the editor. I am always shown the 'Getting Started' screen.

Loading multiple icons would also need to be supported.

Thanks for your assistance as ever!