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Alphabetic Hotkeys for Drop-down lists

Alphabetic Hotkeys for Drop-down lists

<p>Coming from Mastercam and using your product now one of the things that I miss that makes programming tool paths in the "Mfg" subset is contextual hotkeys for the drop down menus.</p>
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<p>For instance:</p>
<p>When you select the "Computer" or "Wear" compensation for this drop down in the 3rd tab, you can left click once on the drop down and then select the Letter that corresponds with the item in the list.&nbsp; "C" for Computer, "W" for wear, etc. and then Left click. If there are 2 entries with the same letter you'd hit the letter twice if you wanted the 2nd entry, and then left click to select.</p>
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<p>There are MANY drop downs and once an experience user goes through them for many weeks/months, its annoying that you have to actually click on the entry you want and can't select by letter.</p>
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<p>This behavior is universally accepted across Windows applications and even web forms where you can select your state by a certain number of the first letter presses depending on how many entries there are of that letter.</p>
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<p>It makes the interface feel much more integrated and I'm sure its possible because the behavior persists across nearly all web forms and Windows own interface.</p>
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<p>Another example is in the Windows directory, if you want to go to System32 amidst all the files, you can either hit the "S" key and it will take you to the "S" section of the directory and then you can select the one you want from the "S"s that are shown or you can hit the "S" key 12 times and hit enter.&nbsp; Obviously this is much much simpler when there are only a handful of entries in drop-down lists and it makes selection very simple and intuitive.</p>
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<p>Thanks for your time reading this.</p>

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Also, apologies for all the HTML page formatting in this post.  You can't edit posts that I can see (which I would have!  You CAN edit comments apparently but not posts?) and I had to copy and paste this long post because I was redirected to a page that, when I went back, didn't preserve anything I wrote and luckily I copied it from the previous formatted text so I wouldn't have to retype everything. I didn't think it would format it again.  Apologies.

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