"Customize keyboard shortcuts" from script repository not working?

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Okay, I’m positive I’m doing something wrong here, but I can’t figure out what it is. I’m trying to make a new keyboard shortcut based on the code from the script repository, but I can’t even get the example working. The code is loading and running fine from my .slicerrc.py but it is not working.

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Oops, hit post to quickly.

I get a “True” back when connecting the signal/slot, so everything appears happy, but the event never goes.

Any ideas? Thanks!!

-Hollister

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Can you post the code?

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Sure, it’s straight from the script repository.

shortcuts = [
  ('Ctrl+b', lambda: slicer.app.layoutManager().setLayout(slicer.vtkMRMLLayoutNode.SlicerLayoutOneUpRedSliceView)),
  ('Ctrl+n', lambda: slicer.app.layoutManager().setLayout(slicer.vtkMRMLLayoutNode.SlicerLayoutOneUpYellowSliceView)),
  ('Ctrl+m', lambda: slicer.app.layoutManager().setLayout(slicer.vtkMRMLLayoutNode.SlicerLayoutOneUpGreenSliceView)),
  ('Ctrl+,', lambda: slicer.app.layoutManager().setLayout(slicer.vtkMRMLLayoutNode.SlicerLayoutFourUpView))
  ]

for (shortcutKey, callback) in shortcuts:
    shortcut = qt.QShortcut(slicer.util.mainWindow())
    shortcut.setKey(qt.QKeySequence(shortcutKey))
    shortcut.connect( 'activated()', callback)
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This works well for me on recent Slicer-4.11 on Windows. Maybe there is something wrong with your .slicerrc.py file, so try to copy-paste it into the Python console.

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Hmm. Wonder if it’s a Mac thing. I did exactly that (copy paste into python console) and it doesn’t work.

I’ll try other key combos using actual Qt_Key:: values.

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On Mac, probably you need to write “Cmd” instead of “Ctrl”.

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Okay, this is odd.

You’re right on the mark with Cmd vs Ctrl. Cmd plus those keys works. But if I change the key text to ‘Cmd+b’, for example, nothing works.

So basically Ctrl is Cmd on a Mac for this. Is this a PyQt thing? In my experience Qt is pretty good at this type of cross-platform thing, but I’ve only ever done Qt programming from C++.

Thanks!!

-Hollister

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It is a Macintosh keyboard thing that Ctrl is called Cmd. The best that Qt can do about this is to abstract it away:

Note: On Mac OS X, references to “Ctrl”, Qt::CTRL, Qt::Control and Qt::ControlModifier correspond to the Command keys on the Macintosh keyboard, and references to “Meta”, Qt::META, Qt::Meta and Qt::MetaModifier correspond to the Control keys. Developers on Mac OS X can use the same shortcut descriptions across all platforms, and their applications will automatically work as expected on Mac OS X.

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Ugh. Annoying. And Meta should be Meta, as in the old LISP machines and Sun keyboards. Oh well.

Thanks!!!