Assign keyboard shortcut to extension

[laurathomas71]

I recently purchased a DW Extension called Get Put All Open. It works great!
It adds two commands to your File Management button on the Document toolbar -
Get All and Put All.

I would like to be able to assign a keyboard shortcut to Put All, but I find
it is not available when I go to the Keyboard Shortcuts dialog box.

It seems like one should be able to do this!

Thanks for any help,
regards,
Laura

[danilocelic *ACE*]

laurathomas71 wrote:

> I recently purchased a DW Extension called Get Put All Open. It works great!
> It adds two commands to your File Management button on the Document toolbar -
> Get All and Put All.

Glad you like it, I needed that functionality so I created the extension.

> I would like to be able to assign a keyboard shortcut to Put All, but I find
> it is not available when I go to the Keyboard Shortcuts dialog box.
>
> It seems like one should be able to do this!

Keyboard shortcuts can only be added for extensions when they add items to one of the built in menus, such as the commands or Edit menu. This extension only adds the items on the File management and not to any menu.

If you're interested in editing an XML file you can add your own short cuts for the added item by opening the following file:
{user folder}/Dreamweaver 8/Configuration/Menus/Menus.xml

To find where your user folder is located, please check here:
[url]http://communitymx.com/blog/index.cfm?newsid=27&blogger=12[/url]

Then just below the <shortcutlist> tag add the following code:
<shortcut id="DWPopup_DocumentState_CMX_PutAll_Shortcut" name="Put All" key="Alt+Cmd+Shift+P" file="Menus/Community MX/Get-Put All.htm" arguments="'PUT'" />
<shortcut id="DWPopup_DocumentState_CMX_GetAll_Shortcut" name="Get All" key="Alt+Cmd+Shift+G" file="Menus/Community MX/Get-Put All.htm" arguments="'GET'" />

* should be on two lines, one for each shortcut.

Save the file and restart Dreamweaver and away you go.

This adds ALT+CMD+Shift+P for putting all, and ALT+CMD+Shift+G to get all. I used these because they aren't used elsewhere (that I could see), but you can use other combos, just make sure you're not overwriting an existing shortcut. As you may suspect, these shortcuts aren't going to be handled through the Edit -> Keyboard Shortcuts dialog.


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[laurathomas71]

Thank you, Danilo. It works perfectly now and is JUST what I was looking for. Definately worth 5 bucks!!

Take care,
Laura