Altering the behaviour of the space bar in Xara Xtreme 3.2

**Soquili** · 17 June 2008, 07:27 PM

Check your systems to see if there is a copy of the hotkeys.ini file in your user folder's Application Data\Xara\XaraXtreme subfolder.

**ss-kalm** · 17 June 2008, 08:04 PM

No, there's only one copy of the hotkeys.ini file.

**Soquili** · 17 June 2008, 08:08 PM

Keith can you zip your hotkeys.ini file and post it?

**ss-kalm** · 17 June 2008, 08:11 PM

Sure

**Soquili** · 17 June 2008, 08:41 PM

Thanks Keith.

Try using the ini file in the attached zip file.

**Soquili** · 17 June 2008, 10:52 PM

The edited hotkeys.ini file must be copied to your user profile's
Local Settings\Application Data\Xara\XaraXtreme\4.0 folder.

For example on my Windows XP system the full path is
C:\Documents and Settings\btaylor\Local Settings\Application Data\Xara\XaraXtreme\4.0

**Soquili** · 17 June 2008, 11:07 PM

Here is a new zip file containing the hotkeys.ini file and a new batch file specific to the 4.0 version of Xara Xtreme.

Extract the contents of the zip file
Double click the copyHotkkeysIni40.bat

**MarkMyWords** · 17 June 2008, 11:53 PM

That works very well, thanks Bill.

I must say that having the selector toggled with the space bar is far better, excellent. Thanks again.

Further, I'm guessing that using the same method, we can pretty much switch any hotkeys in the .ini file? Something worth playing with...no doubt I'll break something and have to reinstall. LOL!

**Soquili** · 18 June 2008, 12:05 AM

Glad it is working. It took some trial and lots of error to get it sorted out

**ss-kalm** · 18 June 2008, 01:18 AM

Thanks Bill. That appears to work fine now.

That Push was almost useless since it appears that the push tool is on the mouse wheel click as standard (as it is with a lot of programs, Autocad included), and is much more intuitive there.