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Posted by Paul Lefebvre in It recently came up on the REAL Software forums that the build shortcut (Control-B or Command-B) is far too easy to accidentally type.
I completely agree. I often hit Command-B when I don’t mean to (usually I was trying to type Command-V to paste some code).
At least with Mac OS X you can easily reassign the shortcut:
- Open Keyboard preference pane
- Select Keyboard Shortcuts tab
- Select Application Shortcuts
- Click the ‘+’ to add REALbasic/REAL Studio
- Type “Build Application” as the Menu Title and press Option-Command-B to set the new keyboard shortcut
- Click Add
It looks like you’ll need separate entries for REALbasic 2009 Release 5.1 and earlier and REAL Studio 2010 Release 1 and later (thanks to Thomas Templemann for the info).
Unfortunately, I don’t have an equivalent tip for Windows users. Does anyone else know of a way to do this on Windows?
Since OS 10.5 I’ve been using this to change several shortcuts in the RB IDE, such as for stepping during debugging. And I never had to update them if I installed a new RB version. Apparently, the features does NOT store the app’s name but instead uses the app’s bundle ID, which doesn’t change. In the 10.6.2’s kbd settings panel I can even see that it does not refer to the IDE’s app name but to “com.realsoftware.realstudio” – which is probably a little bug in the new IDE as to not store the App name in it properly.
You’re right. Although it does appear that the name change to REAL Studio did confuse things for me.
My shortcut for REALbasic 2009 Release 5.1 stopped working with REAL Studio 2010 Release 1. I mistakenly attributed this to the app name rather than an apparent change to the bundle identifier.