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Creating Custom Shortcuts for Items that don't appear in Preferences>System>Shortcuts

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I'm a fairly experienced user of Orcad PCB Designer 17.4 I'm trying to learn more about Presto to see if I can adapt my workflow to its interface in order take advantage of some of the ease of use features. In PCB designer I was able to create custom shortcuts in the environment file that allowed me to turn on and off individual items in the selection filter. This made it easy to select only certain item types on a dense layout without having to use the tab key to cycle though items under the mouse cursor. I appreciate that Presto allows us to create custom shortcuts without having to use an environment file, but the list of things that can be assigned there seems incomplete. Is there a way to add new functions that are not present in the default options presented in the software?

0 masterboyle 6 months ago

I realized yesterday, if you go Help>Diagnostics>Scripting you can record a TCL script of your on screen clicks etc. This might be a way to create more detailed manual shortcuts than the ones allowed for in the Preferences menu, but I'm not sure yet if you can launch your custom TCL via a keyboard shortcut.
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