I recently wrote myself a simple AutoHotKey program to help navigate the jungle of keyboard shortcuts in Sonar and I thought I would share it with the Cake community.
 
The basic idea is to provide an on-screen display of a standard keyboard with brief shortcut descriptions below each key for which there is a binding. By pressing the button for a key, or the key itself on the keyboard, you can display info about all of the available bindings for that key. The display updates when a modifier key is pressed to show the bindings for that modifier, or modifier combination, and a simple search function is also available. The binding descriptions are all stored in a text file, which can be edited to add your own bindings or to fix my mistakes.
 
I'm attempting to upload a screenshot so you can see it. If you're interested in more info, I set up a Google site where you can view and download it (you can also see screenshots there if it doesn't work here - can't get the preview to work...).
 
https://sites.google.com/site/keybindingdisplay 
 
Let me know what you think! (please be gentle, this is my first AutoHotKey script!)
 

 

OK, I hope the image shows up this time - I can see it when I upload, but not in the preview ('not sure what's up with that).
 
Anyway, check it out. Hey, it's free!!
 
 

 
jac


I recently wrote myself a simple AutoHotKey program to help navigate the jungle of keyboard shortcuts in Sonar and I thought I would share it with the Cake community.
 
The basic idea is to provide an on-screen display of a standard keyboard with brief shortcut descriptions below each key for which there is a binding. By pressing the button for a key, or the key itself on the keyboard, you can display info about all of the available bindings for that key. The display updates when a modifier key is pressed to show the bindings for that modifier, or modifier combination, and a simple search function is also available. The binding descriptions are all stored in a text file, which can be edited to add your own bindings or to fix my mistakes.
 
I'm attempting to upload a screenshot so you can see it. If you're interested in more info, I set up a Google site where you can view and download it (you can also see screenshots there if it doesn't work here - can't get the preview to work...).
 
https://sites.google.com/site/keybindingdisplay 
 
Let me know what you think! (please be gentle, this is my first AutoHotKey script!)
 

 

Wish I had found this a while ago... Thanks!

Will this show the appropriate Keyboard Shortcuts for Sonar Platinum?
They have changed considerably since Sonar X1 which is the version you say you use on your website.

Thanks for sharing. Can't wait to try.

I think the shortcuts are for X1, but there is a text file that can be easily modified. I haven't done it yet. If I do, I'll post it.

Hmm,
 
I can't get the new KeyBindings.txt file to be loaded into KBD.

DRanck
Hmm,
 
I can't get the new KeyBindings.txt file to be loaded into KBD.

That's what I found, too. I can even move that text file out of the folder and it still works, so it's not reading it. It's a great little app, though! I hope this can be addressed.
 
-Susan

I am guessing the dev used an "#Include Keybindings.txt" directive to add the file so it was read in at compile time.

I took a look and scook is right, there is a #include directive in the script. After a little investigation, I found that this is, apparently, a known issue with AutoHotKey script compilation. The AHK script itself works as expected, but once it's compiled into an executable, the key bindings get hard-wired in. bummer - wasn't expecting that.
 
I'm still investigating (do you know of a work-around scook?). In the meantime, has anyone actually updated the KeyBindings file? If so, I can do a quick recompile with that while I continue to look into it. 'just let me know...
 
It's getting kinda late here, so I'll have to pick this up again later - but thank you all for the interest!