gse Posted December 17, 2005 Report Share Posted December 17, 2005 I assign a number of macros to hotkeys like Ctrl-~ and Ctrl-Shift-W. However, they don't run until I release the Ctrl key... which makes them feel far less useful. For instance, sometimes I'd like to run the Ctrl-~ macro by holding down Ctrl and pressing ~, ~, ~... in most Windows apps this would work fine. Any plans to fix this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jason Posted December 19, 2005 Report Share Posted December 19, 2005 This feature will tentatively be added in a later release as an option. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gse Posted December 21, 2005 Author Report Share Posted December 21, 2005 Great news! This feature sounds subtle but it'll greatly improve usability for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoxSoft Posted January 5, 2006 Report Share Posted January 5, 2006 This feature will tentatively be added in a later release as an option. That sounds very ... um ... tentative. Can you be more specific, as this intention was original stated quite a while ago (at least a year or more)? It would be nice to hear whether it's really going to happen, as well as some idea as to when. Its current absence has completely stymied my efforts at some keyboard remapping that could save me from an impending case of RSI. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoxSoft Posted October 22, 2006 Report Share Posted October 22, 2006 Any new news on that new feature in that new version? It's quite natural to assume that the pressing of a key will cause an event to occur. Needing to remember that it's the release that counts is exceedingly counter-intuitive. Also, once this feature is instituted, then we might finally get repeatable macros (repeated while the key is held down). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevin Posted October 23, 2006 Report Share Posted October 23, 2006 We are working on a major update to Macro Express. The ability to activate a macro when a hotkey is pressed is one of the features planned for this release. However, at this time, there is no official list of features or an official release date. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisH Posted August 20, 2007 Report Share Posted August 20, 2007 Hi, I'm currently evaluating Macro Express and am very impressed, however this is a particular issue I've noticed and was hoping to see some news that this was going to be addressed. It seems the latest release (3.7) came out in June of this year, but doesn't appear to have included this feature. Is the "major release" still pending, and if so I would be very grateful to find out if this feature is still planned to be included, and if possible a rough timescale for when you expect to release. Many thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cden Posted December 23, 2007 Report Share Posted December 23, 2007 Yet another person here who would like to see this feature. It is a bit annoying to have to release the keys for the macro to finally start. I could get things done even faster if i could hold the CTRL key, navigate with the mouse, and press the various second keys i need in each place without letting go of CTRL. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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