david.atwell Posted October 24, 2007 Share Posted October 24, 2007 This is a feature that has confused me for a while, and all that Search can find is nothing at all, so I thought I'd ask. In our glorious Paint.NET, Ctrl+Shift+Z is a shortcut that opens Rotate/Zoom, a singularly wonderous tool and one of the main things that drew me to this program. However, something that has bugged me about this program is that said shortcut is, in most Windows programs, used for the Redo function. Given my propensity to make mistakes, and then make the mistake of mistakenly un-making the mistake ( :wink: ), Ctrl+Shift+Z is a pretty common tool in my arsenal. I know we don't want too many options in Paint.NET, so I won't ask to re-map shortcut keys. But could we have Redo mapped to something? Or map Ctrl+Shift+Z to Redo, and put Rotate/Zoom on, say, Ctrl+Alt+Z? A modest request. Let the protestations begin. :-) Quote The Doctor: There was a goblin, or a trickster, or a warrior... A nameless, terrible thing, soaked in the blood of a billion galaxies. The most feared being in all the cosmos. And nothing could stop it, or hold it, or reason with it. One day it would just drop out of the sky and tear down your world.Amy: But how did it end up in there?The Doctor: You know fairy tales. A good wizard tricked it.River Song: I hate good wizards in fairy tales; they always turn out to be him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deborah Posted October 24, 2007 Share Posted October 24, 2007 Ctrl-Y is re-do. This is standard for some windows programs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Brewster Posted October 24, 2007 Share Posted October 24, 2007 I don't remember the last time I've seen a program use Ctrl+Shift+Z for undo ... I remember considering it way back in the first weeks of v1.0 and it was just way too cumbersome a keystroke for a common command. Especially if you wanted to alternate between undo and redo commands (for example, to perform before/after comparisons), it was confusing to do the necessary finger acrobatics. Quote The Paint.NET Blog: https://blog.getpaint.net/ Donations are always appreciated! https://www.getpaint.net/donate.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoltBait Posted October 24, 2007 Share Posted October 24, 2007 Ctrl-Y is what I think of when I want to undo my Ctrl-Z. I don't see a need for a change here. Quote Click to play: Download: BoltBait's Plugin Pack | CodeLab | and how about a Computer Dominos Game Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david.atwell Posted October 24, 2007 Author Share Posted October 24, 2007 I didn't know about Ctrl+Y - Thank you! I'm satisfied now. Maybe I'm just too used to Adobe. Ctrl+Shift+Z in Photoshop and Illustrator executes a redo... But Ctrl+Y is good enough for me. Consider this feature request officially retracted. :-) Quote The Doctor: There was a goblin, or a trickster, or a warrior... A nameless, terrible thing, soaked in the blood of a billion galaxies. The most feared being in all the cosmos. And nothing could stop it, or hold it, or reason with it. One day it would just drop out of the sky and tear down your world.Amy: But how did it end up in there?The Doctor: You know fairy tales. A good wizard tricked it.River Song: I hate good wizards in fairy tales; they always turn out to be him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sozo Posted October 24, 2007 Share Posted October 24, 2007 Yeah, in Pagemaker Ctrl-Shift-Z is redo. I instinctively try to redo in Paint.NET, and end up with the Rotate tool. But Ctrl-Y is good to know, thanks Deborah! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Brewster Posted October 24, 2007 Share Posted October 24, 2007 Funny how everyone seems to be claiming this as some new tip or revelation ... ^ Hmm ... really hard to figure out the shortcut key, isn't it? Quote The Paint.NET Blog: https://blog.getpaint.net/ Donations are always appreciated! https://www.getpaint.net/donate.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david.atwell Posted October 25, 2007 Author Share Posted October 25, 2007 I'm not too observant. I can't be bothered to, you know, "read..." :-D Quote The Doctor: There was a goblin, or a trickster, or a warrior... A nameless, terrible thing, soaked in the blood of a billion galaxies. The most feared being in all the cosmos. And nothing could stop it, or hold it, or reason with it. One day it would just drop out of the sky and tear down your world.Amy: But how did it end up in there?The Doctor: You know fairy tales. A good wizard tricked it.River Song: I hate good wizards in fairy tales; they always turn out to be him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pyrochild Posted October 25, 2007 Share Posted October 25, 2007 I'm not too observant. I can't be bothered to, you know, "read..." :-DEspecially when one's time can be spent so much more productively! Blowing up old CRT monitors, for instance... :twisted: Quote ambigram signature by Kemaru [i write plugins and stuff] If you like a post, upvote it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hellfire010 Posted October 25, 2007 Share Posted October 25, 2007 I knew of those shortcuts, as I use them for before/after (as Rick said) all the time. I thought this was standard is ... pretty much all programs. So I opened notepad, and hit control Y only to realize there is no redo! Rather, the undo works as an undo-undo. Of course, with unlimited undos, that wouldn't work on pdn. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tears-on-the-rocks Posted October 28, 2007 Share Posted October 28, 2007 Yeah, Ctrl + Z = undo Ctrl + Y = redo. It's the same in Ms Paint. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david.atwell Posted October 28, 2007 Author Share Posted October 28, 2007 Yeah, but I use Adobe programs fairly often for school, so I'm used to: Undo: Ctrl+Z Redo: Ctrl+Shift+Z But that's just me. :-) Quote The Doctor: There was a goblin, or a trickster, or a warrior... A nameless, terrible thing, soaked in the blood of a billion galaxies. The most feared being in all the cosmos. And nothing could stop it, or hold it, or reason with it. One day it would just drop out of the sky and tear down your world.Amy: But how did it end up in there?The Doctor: You know fairy tales. A good wizard tricked it.River Song: I hate good wizards in fairy tales; they always turn out to be him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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