C1 21 Capturing mouse clicks on thumbnail images, then triggering a menu command.

mattspace

• May 01, 2022 18:59

Hi,

I have a workflow problem, that has been through official support requests, but was unable to be resolved. I'm hoping a scripting solution (or perhaps some third party macro app) might exist to fix it.

I use a twin window/display setup, with the browser on one screen, the viewer on the other. The problem is that when selecting a thumbnail in the browser, although the viewer then shows the image, the menu commands (and keyboard shortcuts) for View > Customise Viewer (command) ie zoom controls, don't apply to the viewer window, unless you manually click the viewer window first.

This seems to be a fundamental architectural problem with the application - because you're clicking the thumbnail in the browser window, the View commands are being routed to the browser window, where they have no relevance / effect.

Currently I have to mouse back and forth between displays, when all I want to do is just click a thumbnail with the mouse, hit a key to zoom to 100%, pan around on the image with my trackpad, hit a key to zoom back out, then click a different thumbnail with the mouse. This problem is breaking a nice ergonomic system with mouse under one hand, keyboard and trackpad under the other.

Is there a way C1 could have a persistent background script that captures mouse clicks on thumbnails in the browser window, and then passes them through with the addition of a keyboard shortcut immediately after to make the viewer window active?

If someone knows it can be done, I'm happy to talk fees for doing so.

Thanks.

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  www.shootmachine.co

  • May 02, 2022 07:59

  Yeah the main viewer is not the same responder as the 2nd window based viewer. It's a bit of a cludge when shortcuts are needed. 

  Not sure about capturing clicks, but the alternative could be (I need to check the functions to be sure) to make a few zoom functions into single scripts designed to call the 2nd viewer, and then have these shortcut instead of the defaults. 

  Alternatively focus the viewer, and use ⌘+ arrow to move to variants in the browser. 

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  mattspace

  • May 02, 2022 08:06

  Thanks - I think I might have found a solution (fingers crossed), using Keyboard Maestro to create a C1-specific macro that fires off the shortcuts in sequence for switch-to-viewer, then zoom-to-fit, and binding that macro to the key I currently use for the zoom-to-fit command. C1 doesn't seem to get flustered by the switch-to-viewer command being activated when you're already in the viewer, as far as I can tell.

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  mattspace

  • May 02, 2022 09:35

  Just to update - Keyboard Maestro is the solution, and would seem to be a solution for any keyboard shortcut that has to be sent to a specific window when in dual-screen mode.

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