Quic Keys X31 Addendum

Addendum - QuicKeys X 3.1 1 Welcome to QuicKeys X 3.1! Version 3.1 is an incredible addition to the already impressive and award winning line of QuicKeys products. This addendum contains information about the new features in QuicKeys 3.1, system requirements and other useful information. For more information on QuicKeys X3 in general, see the User Guide or go to www.quickeys.com. The SoftKeys Shortcut Create -> QuicKeys -> SoftKeys The SoftKeys shortcut makes it simple and intuitive to launch other shortcuts in an easy to organize way. Upon activation, typically with a hot key, SoftKeys will display a translucent palette/toolbar with up to ten of your shortcuts in slots 1 through 0 (corresponding to the number keys across the top of your keyboard). Pressing one of those number keys will fire the shortcut in the associated slot. Figure 31-1. A SoftKeys shortcut launcher For example, you might populate a SoftKeys launcher with your most frequently used app launch shortcuts or your most often accessed folders, or load it with a mix of files, folders and apps associated with a specific project. Alternately you might want to create SoftKeys shortcut launchers to hold shortcuts specific to a particular application and scope that SoftKeys launcher to that app. ❖ Note: SoftKeys shortcuts can be nested inside other SoftKeys shortcuts. Using this technique you can quickly navigate through layers of hierarchy containing every other shortcut you've created if so desired. For example, you could create a master SoftKeys palette where pressing "1" brings up another SoftKeys palette containing all of your web applications, pressing "2" brings up a SoftKeys palette with all of your text editing applications, and pressing "3" brings up another with ten categories of Type Text shortcuts, each of which further contains up to ten Type Text shortcuts you've defined. Building a SoftKeys palette is as follows: 1. Open the QuicKeys Editor and select SoftKeys from the Create -> QuicKeys menu. You'll see a new QuicKeys shortcut window similar to what is shown in Figure 31-2. 2. Drag any shortcuts you like into slots 1 through 0. 3. Give the shortcut a hot key trigger (let's assume "F5"). 4. Name the shortcut, save it, and close it. Addendum - QuicKeys X 3.1 2 Figure 31-2. Setting up a SoftKeys shortcut SoftKeys Options The following options are available within the SoftKeys shortcut editing window: • Drag and drop shortcuts from your main QuicKeys Editor window into the SoftKeys list. Dropping a shortcut on an open slot puts it in that slot; dropping a shortcut on top of an existing list item replaces that item. • Drag items inside the SoftKeys list to re-order them. Dropping a list item between two other list items reorders them;…