I am trying to move from Capture One due to an eighteen-month-old database issue that CO are unable/unwilling to resolve (and certainly unwilling to deal with my requests for information). One of CO’s great strengths is their shortcut facility - both the number and the configurability and I miss that greatly in PL6. But even in CO, there were things I was unable to do so I resorted to AutoHotKey (AHK) and have found it a fabulous bit of software.
You can configure any combination of shortcut to interface with the application and can set it to implement the shortcuts only when an app is running - so, say, Ctrl+P as an export in DxO does not interfere with the universal Windows Print command in all other applications.
This means that any PL6 shortcut can be reconfigured. For example, setting a red color tag: Ctrl+Alt+1 could become Ctrl+R using the code:
;Red Tag
^R::
^!1
Return
[AHK uses ^ as Ctrl and ! as Alt]
I have shortcuts for most of the Local Adjustments so I can get a control point or line or linear gradient with Ctrl+ a key. X toggles on both Shadows and Highlights exposure warning:
;Shadows, Highlights
x::
send {ctrl down}{alt down}bw{alt up}{ctrl up}
Return
It is also possible to arrange to click on a certain icon on the screen, but only if the window is full screen (otherwise the position of the icon is variable) using the following:
;Retouch
h::
ClickBack(1227,16)
Sleep, 250
Return
;ReShape
z::
ClickBack(1195,16)
Sleep, 250
Return
ClickBack is the click, the co-ordinates are the icon location and the sleep is to allow time for the effect before command is handed back to PL6.
Clive