You should combine your work with the Radial Menu from here: Clicking outside the menu will hide it again, or press the capslock again to hide it.įeel free to post any doubts or issues you find with it. To open the xpresskeys menu, just press capslock. You can try its effect on a simple notepad. The keyboard inputs, if matched with the specific program shortcuts, will activate the wanted tool. It is expected to work with most programs on windows 10) The menu shows several buttons, that when pressed, send keyboard inputs to the active window (tried it with photoshop, krita, ilustrator and blender.
Visual quickmenu 7 how to#
Just unzip it anywhere, read the readme.txt for instructions on how to customize it for your use, and run the file xpresskeys.ahk Here's the link to the zip file on Google Drive: So the idea appeared, to pack the most used shortcuts in one quick menu, and instead of simulating an on-screen keyboard, it simulates the actual tools used. Also, when using a digital tablet, the attention is on the screen and not on its function keys. I had the need to create it, because, when working with a digital tablet, the keyboard is usually too far for proper use, and most digital tablets don't have enough function keys for all the tools required.
I am sharing an Autohotkey script I made, that creates a circular menu that can be used to quickly access the most used commands when working with most art applications.