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Setting favorite hotkey
Chuck > 2025-10-13 12:12
Hello Everyone!
After a couple years of profitable use ... Now — After trying 1,001 Variations to get this to work {with Extreme Frustration!}, it appears that I need to discontinue using QAP. Here is what happens now {BTW: I use Windows 10 Pro; with the Most Recent QAP Version} ::
Ever since the most recent update, when I set a hotkey within the Main Popup Menu –> Example: Let’s say that I set “Notepad” to Open when its Hotkey “y” is pressed.
So whenever I need to use the Windows’ “Notepad” – Firstly:: I Press the Keyboard Shortcut to Display the Popup Menu; THEN I press the Letter y to Access Windows’ “Notepad”. Result:: Nothing happens! . . .
HOWEVER!!:: Absolutely Whenever the Popup Menu is NOT displaying – AND I press the Letter y:: the Notepad Program instantly displays—Totally Interrupting whatever I am working on!!
I am now at Wit’s Very End. But I am open to any Final Suggestion.
Thank You!
– Chuck -
RE: Major Hotkey Fail! Apparently Need to Discontinue Use!
LaurentG > 2025-10-13 13:16
Why do you say "since the most recent update" ? What you describe has always been the behaviour of QAP !
It's the reason why it is strongly recommended to define the hotkeys with one or more of the keyboard modifiers (Shift, Alt, Ctrl and Win keys)
Clearly, assign as hotkey a "normal" key without modifier is a very very bad idea ! -
RE: Major Hotkey Fail! Apparently Need to Discontinue Use!
Jean Lalonde > 2025-10-13 13:59
I think Chuck means pressing a hotkey after he opened the QAP menu. For example, if I open the menu with Win+W then press the first letter of a favorite it launches the favorite (if there are more than one favorite name starting with the same letter, it cycles these items and launch one when I press Enter). For example, in my case, if I press N when the QAP menu is open, it launches Notepad as expected. And if I press M, it cycles the item starting with "My...".
Anyway, there is no issue with this behavior here. What you describe is very unusual. I would restart QAP or the Computer to see if this behavior persists. -
RE: Major Hotkey Fail! Apparently Need to Discontinue Use!
Chuck > 2025-10-13 14:00
(2025-10-13 13:16)LaurentG Wrote: Why do you say "since the most recent update" ? What you describe has always been the behaviour of QAP !
It's the reason why it is strongly recommended to define the hotkeys with one or more of the keyboard modifiers (Shift, Alt, Ctrl and Win keys)
Clearly, assign as hotkey a "normal" key without modifier is a very very bad idea !
LaurentG::
{ Thank You for Your Reply . . . AND . . . }
SO, There is Absolutely NO WAY – By Assigning a Hotkey to an item in the Main Popup Menu – For THAT Hotkey to be Active ONLY When the Popup is Displaying??
By the Way: I actually DO have a {NON-Hotkey} means to activate an item ONLY When the Popup is Displaying:: HOWEVER!:: for my Present Question, I wish to trigger a Favorite IN the Popup-Menu ONLY Via Hotkey & ONLY WHILE the Popup IS Displaying. And, just to be Sure:: You are stating that this preference is NOT Possible in QAP. Correct?
(2025-10-13 13:59)Jean Lalonde Wrote: I think Chuck means pressing a hotkey after he opened the QAP menu. For example, if I open the menu with Win+W then press the first letter of a favorite it launches the favorite (if there are more than one favorite name starting with the same letter, it cycles these items and launch one when I press Enter). For example, in my case, if I press N when the QAP menu is open, it launches Notepad as expected. And if I press M, it cycles the item starting with "My...".
Anyway, there is no issue with this behavior here. What you describe is very unusual. I would restart QAP or the Computer to see if this behavior persists.
Dear Jean Lalonde ::
Woops!!
— Our TWO Posts Just Now Crossed in the Mail:: PLEASE SEE My Updated Reply To LaurentG Just Above!! --- And Furthermore::
YES!! I Have Indeed Restarted QAP & the Computer ““A Thousand Times”” out of my Sheer Frustration!! -
RE: Major Hotkey Fail! Apparently Need to Discontinue Use!
Jean Lalonde > 2025-10-13 14:18
I'm trying to reproduce your issue. To use the hotkey "y" to launch Notepad, I renamed the Notepad entry in my menu as "&y Notepad". "&" is making the following letter a hotkey when the menu is open (more info in the QAP knowledge base). And it works as expected. Is this the way you launch Notepad with "y"? What's the exact name of your Notepad favorite? -
RE: Major Hotkey Fail! Apparently Need to Discontinue Use!
Chuck > 2025-10-13 14:51
(2025-10-13 14:18)Jean Lalonde Wrote: I'm trying to reproduce your issue. To use the hotkey "y" to launch Notepad, I renamed the Notepad entry in my menu as "&y Notepad". "&" is making the following letter a hotkey when the menu is open (more info in the QAP knowledge base). And it works as expected. Is this the way you launch Notepad with "y"? What's the exact name of your Notepad favorite?
Jean Lalonde::
BRILLIANT!! – Yes, That Works Perfectly!!
In Answer to the Question in your Penultimate Sentence:: NO :: That is NOT how I HAD set up my Hotkey:: And Furthermore: I STILL Have Zero Idea Why it does not work in the {ALSO Standard} way that I previously used --- I Simply:: Edited that Favorite & Set the Shortcut To “y” in the "Menu Options" TAB for that Favorite – which does NOT Work — BUT!! The Method that you provided in your above Response Actually DOES WORK Perfectly!! — SO Thank You for That, Jean Lalonde!!
Chuck Colsch -
RE: Major Hotkey Fail! Apparently Need to Discontinue Use!
Jean Lalonde > 2025-10-13 15:22
> I Simply:: Edited that Favorite & Set the Shortcut To “y” in the "Menu Options" TAB for that Favorite – which does NOT Work
Setting a hotkey in the "Menu Options" tab sets a *global* hotkey available in every windows, not just when the QAP menu is open. And, as said LaurentG, this is not a good idea to set a single letter (without keyboard modifier like Ctrl or Alt) as a global hotkey... -
RE: Major Hotkey Fail! Apparently Need to Discontinue Use!
Chuck > 2025-10-13 15:31
(2025-10-13 15:22)Jean Lalonde Wrote: > I Simply:: Edited that Favorite & Set the Shortcut To “y” in the "Menu Options" TAB for that Favorite – which does NOT Work
Setting a hotkey in the "Menu Options" tab sets a *global* hotkey available in every windows, not just when the QAP menu is open. And, as said LaurentG, this is not a good idea to set a single letter (without keyboard modifier like Ctrl or Alt) as a global hotkey...
Jean Lalonde::
SOOO Good to Know That, Jean Lalonde!!
Funnily, I have used QAP for Years, but Only Just Recently had I set up a Hotkey in the Errant Manner Described --- Being Quite Unaware that I was, in fact, setting a GLOBAL Hotkey!!!
WELL, a GOOD Thing About This Misadventure:: NOW I Know How to Set Up a “GLOBAL”!!
Thank You Very Much For This Correction, AND for your Amazing Level of Patience!
– Chuck -
RE: Setting favorite hotkey
Jean Lalonde > 2025-10-13 15:46
Good. Knowing that, I took the liberty of renaming this thread to something less dramatic. ;-) -
RE: Setting favorite hotkey
Chuck > 2025-10-13 15:51
(2025-10-13 15:46)Jean Lalonde Wrote: Good. Knowing that, I took the liberty of renaming this thread to something less dramatic. ;-)
(2025-10-13 15:51)Chuck Wrote:
(2025-10-13 15:46)Jean Lalonde Wrote: Good. Knowing that, I took the liberty of renaming this thread to something less dramatic. ;-)
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