I searched for this, but couldn't find it mentioned anywhere:
I'd like to add a keyboard shortcut "ctrl+tab" to switch to the next open tab, but when I try to create the shortcut, I press the combo and focus moves to the next box. Any way around this, or could it be considered for the next release?
fyi - other apps I use (firefox and emeditor for example) use the ctrl+tab shortcut for changing tabs. I find the ctrl+arrow key to be tougher to use than the mouse.
Jim
Currently, you cannot use the + hotkey sequence. I believe it may already be used somewhere else, or it may be reserved for future use. (I do not know this, it's just a theory.)
However, might I suggest these key sequences?
Previously listed folder Go BACK No Alt + Left Arrow
Next listed folder Go FORWARD No Alt + Right Arrow
Parent Folder Go UP BACK No Alt + Up Arrow
Root of Current Drive Go ROOT=COLLAPSE No Alt + Down Arrow
Previous Tab Go TABSELECT -1 No Ctrl + Left Arrow
Next Tab Go TABSELECT +1 No Ctrl + Right Arrow
Open New Tab Go CURRENT NEWTAB No Ctrl + Up Arrow
Close Current Tab Go TABCLOSE No Ctrl + Down Arrow[/code]
Thanks for the tips, Ken - handy shortcuts indeed!
jon - that's just what I was looking for! 
I changed the line
"Function"="Go TABSELECT=prev \0To
"Function"="Go TABSELECT +1 \0and now ctrl tab does EXACTLY what I want it to do.
Thanks!
Jim
The next major release will let you use the tab key in the hotkey editor - although then no doubt everyone will complain that they can't use tab to get to the next field 
Well, you can't please everyone, so you might as well just try to keep me happy 
Jon,
I would [b]strongly advise against[/b] allowing users to reassign specific Tab key sequences, and instead hard-coding the desired behaviors directly into Directory Opus.
[ul][li] Tab – Standard Windows key sequence to move forward one field on GUI (when already at the end of the tab order, loop to the first field in the order).[/li]
[li] Shift + Tab – Standard Windows key sequence to move backward one field on GUI (when already at the beginning of the tab order, loop to the last field in the order).[/li]
[li] Alt + Tab – Standard Windows key sequence to cycle forward between open application windows.[/li]
[li] Alt + Shift + Tab – Standard Windows key sequence to cycle backward between open application windows.[/li]
[li] Ctrl + Tab – Standard Windows key sequence to cycle forward through the Tabs of the open dialog window[/li]
[li] Ctrl + Shift + Tab – Standard Windows key sequence to cycle backward through the Tabs of the open dialog window.[/li][/ul]Windows compliant applications generally do not reassign these key sequences outside of the above behaviors (nor should they). Doing so generally hurts new users when trying to adopt that application, as the application becomes less intuitive, when compared to other Windows applications.
However, the suggestion to have Directory Opus cycle forward through Folder Tabs using the Ctrl +Tab and backward using Ctrl + Shift + Tab definitely falls within the accepted Windows conventions above, when one views Folder Tabs as similar to the Content Tabs of a dialog window. Based on most of the posts I have read regarding this topic here on the User Resource Centre (including the ones you just linked to, and the ones linked to them), I believe that pretty much the entire DOpus user community wouldn't mind not being able to manual assign these values, if each knew the key sequence would operate intuitively within the widely-accepted Windows standard operation that facilitates what they really want—to be able to cycle through Folder Tabs with the key sequence. In other words the users are asking not so much to customize this particular key, as they are to use this key to facilitate the navigation of Folder Tabs in a Windows standard and intuitive manner.
I just checked and Directory Opus does support Ctrl + Tab in certain dialogs. For example, in Customize > Keys, the user can Ctrl + Tab, and Ctrl + Shift + Tab through the Content Tabs of the Customize dialog. This is Windows complaint behavior, and it really shouldn't be tampered with. Think about what would happen with this key sequence if a user reassigned it and applied the "System Wide" option!
[quote="ken"]... In other words the users are asking not so much to customize this particular key, as they are to use this key to facilitate the navigation of Folder Tabs in a Windows standard and intuitive manner.[/quote]I agree. Well said, Ken.
Actually before folder tabs were even thought of, people have been asking to configure the tab key to behave differently
And the defaults won't change, so no one should get confused - tab just becomes available as another key you can configure should you wish to.