Altering the behaviour of the space bar in Xara Xtreme 3.2

[Xara Support]

From version 3.2 onwards, holding down the space bar causes a temporary switch to the Push tool. Releasing the Space bar returns to the previously selected tool or pressing it once will switch to the push tool and pressing it again will return to the previous tool.

You can restore the old use of the space bar as a shortcut to the Selector tool.

Xara Xtreme 3.2

Download copyhotkeysini.zip
Extract the contents of the zip file
Double click the copyHotkkeysIni.bat

Xara Xtreme Pro 3.2

Start the Xtreme Pro Shortcuts utility
Select Tools from the left side
Select the 'Switch to Selector'(default shortcut of Alt+S) and choose 'Space' from the keystroke list.

[Tallis]

Thanks! A question that has been unanswered for a while:

Let's say someone makes a bunch of shortcut modifications. Let's say thay also make other preference changes. Then their computer has problems and they need to reinstall windows. There just doesn't seem to be any reliable, portable way to back up shortcut and preference changes ( like totally customized icon toolbars ). Not like I have some elaborate system customization yet-- I've held off because I see no way to back it up--, but I've seen others', and it just seems like an hour to set up in extreme cases. The answer has been to hunt the registry entries down, and in my case, the mentioned folder in regedit was actually not there.

If there are many shortcut, icon bar, and preference changes made, can you explain how these would be saved to later restore from?

Thanks again, and thanks for posting here.

[gwpriester]

I'll add this to the Xara Xone Shareware page as well.

Gary

[Judi A]

Thank You!!!!

[raynerj1]

Hi Tallis,

I use a customizeable setup on mine. Most of the customization you can save with your default template. the rest just takes about 5-10 Minutes to redue... While testing, I had to redo mine about every week to 2 weeks.

[handrawn]

I'd agree - as long as you have the changes you need to make noted down, it don't take long

[itsfransie]

Thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you!!!!!!

Gods, I must have gotten that cursed Push-tool a gazillion times by now.... Just couldn't get my brain to switch from space to F2.

[Xhris]

Thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you!!!!!!

Gods, I must have gotten that cursed Push-tool a gazillion times by now.... Just couldn't get my brain to switch from space to F2.

I use Alt-S, and always have. I'm getting good at shift-clicking now instead of right-clicking for line colour changes.

[MarkMyWords]

Does the batch file work with Xtreme 4? I tend to use Alt+S too, but I can see how much better this would be.

[raynerj1]

Under the utilites=>customize key Short-cuts opens an applet so you can redefine the short cuts as you want. I am used to xara's shortcuts so I haven't played much with it. Lots of folk have tho...

I am not sure if it is only in pro or also in xtreme. Try it... you might like it.