I noticed some annoying behaviour working with keyboard in DOpus.
When you enter a folder by hitting the enter key, the folder content appears and the first element is "ghosted". I mean that is not selected but is surrounded by a dotted box. If, say, I wish to activate exactly this element (folder or file is the same), hitting enter does nothig. I must first click with mouse or hit the spacebar. After that the element can be activated by hitting enter.
Some windows behave strangely working with Italian keyboard. For example, if I try to enter a "}" character in the script editor hitting SHIFT+ALT+"]" a strange message about parentheses matching appears. I must enter the char with ALT+125 Tn.
In find files dialog, if I try to digit a "~" character via ALT+126 Tn the simple options pane switches to the advanced options pane (just hitting ALT+1 Tn). If I want to enter that char I must open the notepad, enter the char and copy/paste into DOpus.
Too bad with the Italian keyboard you cannot reach those characters with a single keystroke.
Is there a way to change this annoying behaviour (other that switching the keyboard layout)?
This had come up before from another user and I think Tanis was the one that said "yeah, you have to hit spacebar to actually 'select' the first item" in the folder...
I have 2 suggestions:
a) petition GPSoft for a Feature Request to provide a "Folders" option in Prefs like Auto-select first item in file display when entering folders or some such option.
b) Bind a NEW hotkey with something like <CTRL+ENTER> to perform the following 2 commands:
Go FROMSEL
Select FIRST
This will let you hold the CTRL key down the whole time pressing Enter - Enter - Enter in sucession to "go" into each selected initial folder. Once you hit a 'file' and not a 'sub-folder' as the first selected item - the hotkey will do nothing (unless maybe for supported zip files).
You could naturally bind such commands to a single key if you don't want to use <Ctrl+ENTER>... but I would advise NOT to use just plain ... since you will then no longer be able to 'open' selected files by hitting the enter key. Maybe a function key like or something would make you happy...
Hmmm... I would have thought that if a zip file were the first item in a folder entered using the commands I suggested, that performing the commands again would 'go' into the zip file as a folder. It doesn't ... oh well. But it works fine for folders.
... oh well. But it works fine for folders.