Question about how Preferences works

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Hi, quick question. I just want to know if I understand DOpus correctly.

If I want a hotkey to change some Preferences option on the fly, there needs to be an existing, specific internal command for that option. It's not the case that I could write a script to automate opening Preferences, navigating to the appropriate tab and changing the option.

Am I correct in my thinking?

I just had a thought that I could make hotkeys for pre-setting the slideshow speed, but couldn't see a command for that. I wondered if I could solve it with a script, but from what I can figure that's just not how scripts work, right?

Thanks for any reply.

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No...
If an internal command does not exist to override something in Preferences, you will not be able to change it via scripting.

One thing you could do via scripting is to mimic a slideshow, where you can decide when to change to another image, but IMO that would be overkill.

So you will end up asking for a way to programmatically change the slideshow speed.

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