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[jkenton]

Hey everyone.

I am using an entirely stock installation of Evernote. I have not fiddled with any of the settings or anything like that.

I love me some keyboard shortcuts. I have tags that I use for workflows, and the shortcut Ctrl-Alt-T (to Tag Note) seemed like a Godsend.

When I highlight a note and press "Ctrl" and "Alt" and the Letter "T", I get an evernote error about not finding a webcam.

Any ideas what might be happening here?

[dlu]

That sounds odd. Which version of Evernote are you using?

[jefito]

That is weird. The UI doesn't let you reassign the shortcut for this operation. Is it possible that your webcam software has taken it over somehow?

[jkenton]

@dlu - I am using 4.5.4 on this computer, and this has been happening for me since the 3.x days. Until now, tagging has been a low priority, so I always right-clicked and chose Tag Note... from the pull down menu.

@jefito - I will look into that. I disregarded that as a concern because the error message is an Evernote-specific error box (with the Elephant icon and everything). My experience has shown that missing software errors are usually Windows dialog boxes.

Ctrl- Alt - T has some different behaviors in the other programs I use (Chrome opens a new tab, Outlook wants to print in memo format, etc.).

This one is a head-scratcher. Is there an .ini file that I can try to decode or something?

[jefito]

This one is a head-scratcher. Is there an .ini file that I can try to decode or something?

As far as I know, Evernote uses the registry for all its settings. You could look at HKCU\Software\Evernote\Evernote for starters. There are several "HotkeyXXX" entries, for the UI configurable hotkeys. For the rest, I didn't see anything that seemed to relate to that operation. That's not to say that there's not some special entry that's not there by default, and somehow you enabled it.

A head-scratcher indeed.

[kvitekp]

There is no registry setting that configures Ctrl-Alt-T (Tag Note) shortcut key in Evernote application registry, this shortcut key is hardwired. So it has to be something external to Evernote.

Could it be some external key mapping utility that remaps Ctrl-Alt-T to Ctrl+Shift+W? Or some other sort of "keyboard enhancement" utility? Or intl keyboard driver?

/Peter

[jkenton]

@kvitekp, thanks for the tip about the key mapping utility idea. This behavior is on EVERY computer that I use, and my impression is that I have not installed anything on any of my machines to make this so widespread. I frankly do not fiddle with my keyboard mappings. WinXP tells me I have the standard 101/102 Key keyboard plugged into the keyboard port. Other machines have USB keyboards, etc.

Is there an "Evernote Registry" that "lives" in the installation? That is, is there a place where these "hard-wired" keymappings live?

[jefito]

I think that Peter means that the shortcut keys are hard-wired into the application. There's no registry as such (a set of mappings of named values of particular types, where those values can be modified); most likely there's a virtual keyhandler of some sort that when it recognizes Ctrl+Alt+T, calls the function that brings up the Tag Notes dialog.

[Owyn]

Yep. e.g. Ctrl+Alt+T does not work in Ubuntu Wine environment because it is overridden by the global mapping to start a terminal. No problem when I use it inside a windows VM with captured keyboard and without an additional key handler app.