Using "?" key in a shortcut

[FairfieldPhoto]

I am trying to create a shortcut for the old refresh shortcut key of SHIFT+? but when I try to create that shortcut, I get SHIFT+/ in the shortcut field.  Is this by design or an oversight.  So much muscle memory on SHIFT+? for a refresh that I can't remember F5 when working fast.

Thanks

-Mike

[ahoward]

I am trying to create a shortcut for the old refresh shortcut key of SHIFT+?

In Photo Mechanic 5, refresh did not have a shortcut. In Photo Mechanic 6 the shortcut was F5, and then the same was true in the new version until we introduced customizable shortcuts. So refresh doesn't ever appear to have been tied to Shift+?

That said, on my keyboard (a US English, QWERTY keyboard), ? and / are the same key. I need to press Shift and the key that has "?" and "/" printed on it to get a question mark, so other than the shortcut not displaying a "?" character, I'm not really clear what problem this is causing you; holding shift and pressing the key with "?" and "/" on it should do what you are needing it to.

Perhaps you are actually wanting the Rescan function, which has always been tied to the / key since Photo Mechanic 5 (and possibly earlier)?

[FairfieldPhoto]

Interesting.  So I guess I was using an undocumented feature.

Will you be able to allow a SHIFT+? shortcut to be assigned to the view/refresh option?   

Current behavior is that when pressing SHIFT+? the custom shortcut for View/Refresh results in the shortcut being set to SHIFT+/, not SHIFT+? and actually, the shortcut key becomes "/" without the SHIFT.   Pressing SHIFT+/ does nothing but pressing "/" gets a refresh of the contact sheet.

Thanks

-Mike

[ahoward]

Again, I'm pretty sure you want Rescan, not Refresh. Try setting Rescan to Shift+? (or Shift+/, as it were) and tell me if the combination of keys that you are trying to set now performs the function that you are wanting it to.

[FairfieldPhoto]

I have reread the definitions of "refresh" and "rescan" in the help file.  I definitely want "refresh".

I am unable to set the shortcut key to "?".  Using SHIFT + the ?/ key results in "SHIFT+/" being displayed as the shortcut, but then only "/" works as the shortcut.  Pressing SHIFT+? doesn't actually load the question mark as the shortcut key.  Can you try setting the shortcut to "?" to see if you get the "?" rather than the "/" as the shortcut on your end to see if you can do that?

I am on Windows 11.

Thanks

-Mike

[ahoward]

If I customize the "Refresh" function to be the key combination that I would press to type a question mark, the shortcut displays as "Shift +/". When I press Shift+/ with an active Contact Sheet, it refreshes (for example, if I am in the "selected" filter and select 3 images on the contact sheet, it refreshes to only show those 3 images). When I press the / key on its own, no refresh occurs (but the Contact Sheet does rescan and if new images were added to the directories it is displaying they do appear).

At this point, it would probably most effective if you gave us a phone call and we did a screenshare so I can better understand the issue, as I am unable to reproduce the issue on my test machine.