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Color Picker Hotkey

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rbelmont000
Feb 22, 2017 at 4:10 pm
I really like Pyxel Edit and use it all the time, but the color picker hotkey as alt is super annoying, I would love to be able to change it to a different key, and it's honestly my only big issue with this program. 
CandyFace
Feb 22, 2017 at 5:27 pm
Hi rbelmont000

That's quite odd, since alt is the hotkey that most painting programs and especially photoshop like to use for picking up a color.

No worries though, you can just bind the shortcut to a different key. 
Go to this folder:
Windows: C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Roaming\PyxelEdit\Settings
You can enter %appdata% as the path in windows explorer to find the Roaming folder quickly.
Mac: /Users/[username]/Library/Application Support/PyxelEdit/Settings

Open keybindings.json and insert this:
[
  {
  "keyString": "C", // Key to bind to
  "shitKey": false, // Hold down shift?
  "action": "quick_pick_color_action" // Color picker action
  }
]

Save the file and open PyxelEdit.
You can find all the actions available in the Readme file, located in the same folder :)


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rbelmont000
Feb 23, 2017 at 4:00 am
Oh man, thats going to help me out a lot. I didn't think there were custom keybindings at all. Thanks a lot for the help!