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Hi, I have only one little request. On all the trackers I've used, you start playing the song with ctrl. Would be nice to bind it to that key. Or rather, ctrl to play, and then space to stop. And when you hit space again, it jumps into edit mode. I thought that would be included in the "Fasttracker style" setting.
But I'd be glad if just ctrl would be bindable.
Probably would be hard to bind just control itself. CTRL/SHIFT/ALT aren't considered their own keypress under a lot of key handling systems, they are "modifiers" to other keys if held down. (And you'd have to disable all modifiers using ctrl if you bound it by itself, e.g. CTRL-C / CTRL-V cut and paste...)
What tracker starts playing with control, by the way?
Protracker (and I'm sure several other on Amiga), Fasttracker, and the one I'm using nowadays - Renoise.
It's somewhat a hassle, even for such a little thing. It makes me do work on renoise first, and then do it in famitracker :P
rainwarrior has a point, though; keep in mind that FamiTracker's actually an MFC application. Being one, it uses the exact same key handling system as the Windows OS it's running (so you're pretty much screwed when trying to use CTRL on its own for something).
Anyways, SPACE works good enough for going into/out of edit mode & ENTER is what you use to play/stop.
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The Amiga didn't even have a CTRL key in the same spot though. Did they use ALT, or the CTRL that was left of CAPS LOCK? (You can bind CAPS LOCK in FamiTracker, by the way.)
Do you still have Amiga computers around that you track on?
[quote=rainwarrior]Out of curiosity, I'm wondering...
The Amiga didn't even have a CTRL key in the same spot though. Did they use ALT, or the CTRL that was left of CAPS LOCK? (You can bind CAPS LOCK in FamiTracker, by the way.)
Do you still have Amiga computers around that you track on?[/quote]
Hah! You are correct, ctrl wasn't located there. They used alt, so sort of in the same area. And yeah, I still have my Amiga, though I have no space for it. :o Which is a pity.
[quote=TechEmporium]rainwarrior has a point, though; keep in mind that FamiTracker's actually an MFC application. Being one, it uses the exact same key handling system as the Windows OS it's running (so you're pretty much screwed when trying to use CTRL on its own for something).
Anyways, SPACE works good enough for going into/out of edit mode & ENTER is what you use to play/stop.[/quote]
Yeah, I figured as much, since the key binding felt restricted.
Yes it has to be enough then, when you can't do anything about it. :P
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