How to set Keyboard App Shortcuts for submenu items?

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How to set Keyboard App Shortcuts for submenu items?

Hi--

I'm trying to set some Keyboard Shortcuts for Pro Tools. I'm facing a problem, though. I want to set a shortcut for the menu item

View -> Edit Window Views -> Inserts A-E

so in the Keyboard Preference Pane, i created an App Shortcut to "Inserts A-E". The problem is that there are other submenu items in Pro Tools with the same name, e.g.

View -> Mix Window Views -> Inserts A-E

Track -> Bypass Inserts -> Inserts A-E

and it's this last one that ends up being triggered by the shortcut. The shortcut actually shows up in all three places when browsing through the menus; but it only triggers the "bypass" item.

In the Keyboard Preferences pane, is there any way to specify which menu a submenu item resides in?

I'm on El Capitan 10.11.2, Pro Tools 11.3.1.

thanks in advance

~peter in istanbul

Posted on Dec 20, 2015 7:14 PM

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peter jaques Author

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Dec 20, 2015 8:07 PM in response to Barney-15E

Actually I just found this old post:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2572960?answerId=12798396022#12798396022

which had my answer. If I enter

View->Edit Window Views->Sends A-E

for the menu item, it correctly assigns my shortcut. It's important that there be no spaces around the "->".

FYI and for the information of anyone else reading this post.

~peter in istanbul

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Barney-15E

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Dec 20, 2015 7:20 PM in response to peter jaques

What you are trying is not possible. The shortcuts can only handle a single menu command name. The command being the final item. The other parent menus are not considered.

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Barney-15E

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Dec 21, 2015 4:42 AM in response to peter jaques

That's quite handy. Thanks for finding and pointing it out.

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Oct 4, 2017 3:34 AM in response to peter jaques

Great, just what I needed. Thanks!

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