Ability to turn off all sytem-wide hotkeys

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Could we possibly have the ability to toggle all system-wide hotkeys?

I have made good use of them, all using Ctrl+Shift or Alt+Shift, but I also have several much-used programmes that have extensive systems of very useful bu conflicting hotkeys (unfortunately not configurable as in DOpus).

At the moment, I am shutting down DOpus to be able to use all of each of the other programme's hotkeys, which is inconvenient. If I could quickly toggle just the DOpus system-wide hotkeys on and off, using a button command, this would make things so much more flexible — or even better, toggle them to work only when DOpus has the focus.

(My constant qualification: This may very well exist already, or be available via a script.)

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Sure, should be easy to add.

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That is good news. I asked for similar feature and I get answer that is impossible.

But as I suppose - maybe I write it wrong and should request for disable global hotkeys by button.
Update: no, I asked for that too: "So maybe at least possibility to temporary disable global DO hotkeys?"
Good to know that now is easy to add.

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What you asked for isn't possible right now, i.e. the feature does not currently exist.

I didn't mean it isn't possible that it could be added.

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I must misunderstood your answer then:

So I think that requesting for that has no sense.

Good that it will be possible.
+1 for option to disable/enable global hotkeys.

And small request - if is possible - maybe in customize mode I can check some additional checkbox like "do not disable" - so I can choose which ones global keys will be still active even if I disable global keys by button.

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Thanks very much, jon and leo, for taking my request seriously. (My most recent battle, by the way, was a clash with hotkeys when toggling upper and lower case in PCTeX.) I'll keep a watch on future updates and report back when things change.

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Thank you for new useful option.
Is possible to made additional option as I described?

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Thank you very much, jon and leo. That will greatly help when I'm doing intensive work in another programme.

I've created a toolbar button whose icon is always visible, so that I know what state it is in. I've also given it a (non-system-wide) hotkey. I used the obvious command:
Set DisableGlobalHotkeys=Toggle

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'One ring to rule them all!'

I soon realised that toggling global hotkeys off or on required Alt+Tab back to DOpus to use the non-system-side hotkey that I had created. If I had not launched any lister, then I also had to launch a lister first.

AutoHotkey to the rescue. I have created an AutoHotkey with the code:
^!+h::
Run, "C:\Program Files\GPSoftware\Directory Opus\DOpusrt.exe" /Cmd Set DisableGlobalHotkeys=Toggle
Return
and put it into into my all-users StartUp directory so that it is always available. On my system, this is
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\StartUp

This sets Ctrl+Alt+Shift+H as a system-wide hotkey to toggle the DOpus setting DisableGlobalHotkeys. If there turns out to be a hotkey clash, then I will be able to edit the hotkey very quickly to something else.

This trick may go some way to addressing peterb's concerns.

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Win+E opens lister even if global hotkeys are disabled (not my default shortcut to open lister but useful anyway). Then I can turn on global hotkeys again by menu or button. But still possibility to edit which global hotkeys are always working will be nice feature. Also - why using AutoHotkey if Windows has possibility to create hotkeys for lnk files without any additional software (but not every hotkey is possible to assign - for example my default ctrl+tilde for opening lister is impossible).

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I had first tried creating a Windows LNK file to a BAT file with the DOpusrt command, but I found that couldn't assign the hotkey Ctrl+Alt+Shift+H to the LNK file. That's why I turned to AutoHotkey.