Hello,

I have a strange problem...ever since spilling water on my laptop, the circuitry has been messed up so some combinations of buttons don't work. One such combination is Ctrl+1, one very important pd shortcut...is there any way to change this shortcut to something else?

not sure if you can do it in pd without getting in and modifying the source code,

BUT, there might be some way you can change your computer's keyboard mapping in your OS preferences. for example, you might be able to swap your CTRL and ALT keys or something.

what os are you on?

osx allows custom key shortcuts on the os side. somewhat tedious so set up but it allows you to add shortcuts to programs that don't usually allow it (protools is a good example).

Sorry, forgot to mention -- I'm on Windows XP. I've actually already used keyboard remapping to fix a couple other problems. (See http://xs435.xs.to/xs435/09041/secretplan923.png)

Anyway, if I could switch CTRL with something else if I have to, though I'd rather be able to just change it inside pd...maybe I'll have to edit the source code and compile it myself...

if it's just water, there's a good chance it's gonna start working after a while. you may try to dry with hair drier etc...

Silvawhale, thanks for the optimism! Unfortunately it happened a while ago. I already got a replacement keyboard, which solved most but not all of the problems -- some problems seem to have gone into the motherboard circuit.

had similar problem when on XP, but now with pure:dyne its gone.

gnu/linux rocks

Hey, I love linux as much as the next guy, but since my problem's hardwired to the motherboard circuit it doesn't help much. I've tried using software to switch different keys with Ctrl, but my keyboard circuit simply doesn't recognize the combination Ctrl+1 (or Ctrl+A for that matter) even if it's actually Caps Lock+1 or something else. I don't see how switching to linux would help, unless I compiled my own version of pd with my own keyboard shortcuts.