[Eric] Keys no longer working

Detlev Offenbach detlev at die-offenbachs.de
Sat Oct 6 10:16:39 BST 2007


On Freitag, 5. Oktober 2007, Philippe Fremy wrote:
> 	Hi,
>
> I installed Eric recently. I modified some of the key shortcut to
> resemble MSVC and then Eric stopped more or less accepting keys. I can
> use it with the mouse properly but I can not edit text or use any shortcut.
>
> I tried to uninstall and re-install the lastest snapshots. It worked for
> 5 seconds :-) . I could edit a file, then I typed C-Z and I had a popup
> with something like "Control-Z is an amibibuus shortcut" and then eric
> stopped accepting key again.
>
> I am on windows, with pyhton2.5 and latest PyQt.
>
> I suppose that an exception is generated that prevents key events from
> being handled. Is there any log file I can look at ?
>
> Changing the key shortcut did not seem to work very well by the way.
> Sometimes, it would change another shortcut than the one I was editing,
> or it would mess up other shortcuts, like removing the shift/control/alt
> modifiers.
>
> Apart from that, using it was a pleasing experience :-)
>
>
> Any idea how to fix my problem ? I could not locate the Eric settings.
> If I could, I would be happy to set them back to default.
>

To reset the key bindings to default values just load the file default.e4k 
using Settings->Import Keyboard Shortcuts...

Did you get any errors, when you remapped the keys? Normally eric4 should 
check, that no keyboard shortcut is bound to two actions (that would produce 
the error you are getting).

Regards,
Detlev
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Detlev Offenbach
detlev at die-offenbachs.de


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