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From: Jian Zou (zouj01_at_mails.tsinghua.edu.cn)
Date: Mon Jul 25 2005 - 20:47:00 CDT

Hi John,

Thank you so much for your kindness.

I tried vmd-1.8.2 and 1.8.3 on 3 PCs using windows-xp professional including
sp2, english version, and encountered the similar problem, therefore it may
not caused by some keyboard problem.

I do not add any hotkey now, and the problem is about some of the default
hotkey, including

G = rotate z by -2 (act as 'g = rotate z by 2')
Ctrl-a = scale by 1.1 (act as 'a' without definition)
Ctrl-z = scale by 0.9 (act as 'z = rock z by -1', and sometimes 'z' acts as
'Ctrl-z')
...
These three hotkeys only work properly occasionally.

Alt-M = menu main on/off
Alt-f = menu file on/off
...
This kind of hotkeys never work for me.

any ideas?

Regards,

Jian Zou

----- Original Message -----
From: "John Stone" <johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu>
To: "Jian Zou" <zouj01_at_mails.tsinghua.edu.cn>
Cc: "VMD Mailing List" <vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2005 01:49
Subject: Re: vmd-l: problem about hotkey for vmd-1.8.3 windows version

>
> Jian,
> Which version of Windows are you running? Can you email me the exact
> "user add key" commands you're trying to use on your machine that you're
> having problems with? I'll test the default hotkey combinations on my
> XP test machines here and see if there's a problem on my machines or not.
>
> John Stone
> vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>
> On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 10:44:12PM +0800, Jian Zou wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I just installed vmd-1.8.3 windows version, however I found that some of
>> the predefined hotkeys cannot work properly, most of which are some
>> combination of keys such as "Ctrl-a", "Shift-g", "Alt-f".
>>
>> If the hotkey contains only a character, such as "x y z", it will work.
>> ("X
>> Y Z" also works, yet "G" does not).
>>
>> It seems that the cmd used as vmd-console may only recognize a single key
>> of the combination.
>>
>> Did someone encounter this kind of problems before?
>> Does anybody know to solve the problem?
>>
>> Thank you so much for you advice.
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Jian Zou
>
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