'o' key line/shape toggle after Ctrl-Z

[adante]

This is the most ridiculously petty thing to ask about but I"m genuinely curious about the following behaviour:

 

If I'm in shape mode and draw a shape, then Ctrl-Z to undo it, then press o, it will toggle to line mode.

 

If I'm in line mode and draw a line, then Ctrl-Z to undo it, then press o, nothing happens. I have to press o again to toggle to shape mode.

 

I'm just curious why this is the case. I spend a lot of time annotating pictures with rectangles and lines in paintdotnet and am often in the wrong mode and inadvertently draw a line when I want a rectangle (or vice versa). So my behaviour is to Ctrl-Z and hit o to toggle. However I have to be mindful of which mode I'm transitioning from/to in order to  remember the number of o's to press.

 

I guess it also begs the followup question: is there a explicit and distinct hotkey for the line mode or one for shape mode?

[Rick Brewster]

The shortcut keys for tools aren't toggles, they're "chords."

 

So the shortcut key for Shapes isn't 'o', but rather 'o o'. The second 'o' must be within a second or so of the first one. It doesn't matter which tool you have active.

 

It's done this way so that the chord is context-free: it doesn't change depending on which tool you have active, it's always the same.

[adante]

6 hours ago, Rick Brewster said:

The shortcut keys for tools aren't toggles, they're "chords."

 

So the shortcut key for Shapes isn't 'o', but rather 'o o'. The second 'o' must be within a second or so of the first one. It doesn't matter which tool you have active.

 

It's done this way so that the chord is context-free: it doesn't change depending on which tool you have active, it's always the same.

 

Ahh gotcha! Thanks, that will save me a lot of time.

 

Might be worth renaming the tooltip to o, o perhaps.

 

[BoltBait]

The same applies to the move tools:

 

 Move Pixels Tool (M)

 

Move Selection Tool (MM)

 

and the selection tools:

 

 Square Selection Tool (S)

 

 Lasso Selection Tool (SS)

 

 Circle Selection Tool (SSS)

 

 Magic Wand Tool (SSSS)

[Ego Eram Reputo]

In the documentation, I referred to these keyboard combinations like this;

Tool Shortcuts
Rectangle Select	S
Lasso Select	S x 2
Ellipse Select	S x 3
Magic Wand Tool	S x 4
Shapes	O x 2
Move Selected Pixels	M
Move Selection	M x 2

(of course it's laid out much better than that! ) See  https://www.getpaint.net/doc/latest/KeyboardMouseCommands.html

[Pratyush]

2 hours ago, Ego Eram Reputo said:

In the documentation, I referred to these keyboard combinations like this;

Tool Shortcuts
Rectangle Select	S
Lasso Select	S x 2
Ellipse Select	S x 3
Magic Wand Tool	S x 4
Shapes	O x 2
Move Selected Pixels	M
Move Selection	M x 2

(of course it's laid out much better than that!)

 

If I correctly remember.....

Once you have selected Shapes tool by O X 2, it's 'A'. 'A' is chord to select Shapes.

i.e.

Rectangle Shape	A
Rounded Rectangle	A x 2
Ellipse Shape	A x 3
Rhombus	A x 4
Trapezoid	A x 5
And so on...

[adante]

Sorry if I wasn't clear, I more meant the tooltips when you hover. For example, when I sit my cursor over the shapes key I get this:

 

 

I feel like 'o o' or 'o x 2' might be more appropriate? Just a suggestion anyway.

 

Thanks for a great product! 

[Ego Eram Reputo]

Rick has a note flagged to look at changing the tooltips where multiple key presses are required. Stay tuned....