Build 8835 - change made to color labels and numbered stars

[Scott Frazee]

Good morning.

It used to be that I could swap between setting my ratings to colors - and then to stars by hitting the appropriate selection and hitting Apply.  Now, I have to exit the application for the change to take place.  Would love to see the original functionality restored, please.

Thanks!

Scott

[ahoward]

Thanks for reporting this issue.

The new build introduced the ability to customize keyboard shortcuts on the Windows version of Photo Mechanic, and as such the choice for setting single-key shortcuts to set Star Ratings or Color Labels was supposed to be removed from the program, as the configuration of keyboard shortcuts is now supposed to all take place in the 'Keyboard Shortcuts' Customization panel.

So, you have a few options at the moment:
One would be to use the new keyboard shortcut customizations to set your keyboard shortcuts in such a way that you can modify color labels and star ratings without ever having to go into preferences. For example: you could set it so that star ratings are `1,2,3,4,5, and then color labels are set with 6,7,8,9,0.

Alternatively, we plan to add the ability to create snapshots for the keyboard shortcut customization panels and when we do this we will have pre-installed snapshots that re-create the current ability to easily switch between setting star ratings and color labels with your number keys. (And this won't require a restart of the program).

If you prefer to wait until we've added this snapshot feature, you can uninstall build 8835 and revert back to the prior build. The installer for the previous build can be found here and I'll post an update on this thread when we've got a new build out.