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D.T. Nethery wrote: ↑06 Mar 2021, 15:12 Next I tried to assign CTRL + SPACE to Flip KEYS and BREAKDOWNS . Guess what happened ? Yes , I got a weird line tool that pops up.

hs.hotkey.bind({"command"}, "Space", 
	function() hs.eventtap.event.newKeyEvent("f", true):post() end,
	function() hs.eventtap.event.newKeyEvent("f", false):post() end
	)

schwarzgrau wrote: ↑06 Mar 2021, 15:59

D.T. Nethery wrote: ↑06 Mar 2021, 15:12 Next I tried to assign CTRL + SPACE to Flip KEYS and BREAKDOWNS . Guess what happened ? Yes , I got a weird line tool that pops up.

Great SHIFT + SPACE works. This is a good starting point. CMD + SPACE probably doesn't work since its conflicting with the spotlight search on MacOS. But if you don't use this key combination you could disable it in the keyboard settings of your Mac. This way you get your second useable combination. You'll find it here System Preferences > keyboard > shortcuts tab > Spotlight.
This combination isn't supported by TVPaint, but you could use this code in Hammerspoon to rebind CMD + SPACE with F

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hs.hotkey.bind({"command"}, "Space", 
	function() hs.eventtap.event.newKeyEvent("f", true):post() end,
	function() hs.eventtap.event.newKeyEvent("f", false):post() end
	)

As far as I know X-keys come with a license of Controllermate for Mac. This is a tool which lets you rebind your keys without coding, just by plugin in some "nodes" into each other. I heavily used it a few years ago, but their development nearly stopped. But it's a great tool and fairly easy to use.
A few years ago I wished for some buttons on the back of my cintiq companion to use my index finger and ring finger to flip faster between the last and the next frame. Since I couldn't find something except of the overpriced X-keys I made the (bad) decision to build something myself and dived way too deep in the mechanical keyboard community rabbit hole. Currently I use the left half of a bluetooth split keyboard on the back of my Mobile Studio and another splitkeyboard on my regular Cintiq. But I probably dived already way to deep in this topic.

A much cheaper and more versatile option than one of the long X-keys would be a "Butter Stick", which can be bought ready to use for $55 and can be configured with this online configurator or with Controllermate

schwarzgrau wrote: ↑06 Mar 2021, 17:12 But this wouldn't explain why the SHIFT + SPACE workaround still works?

I guess the problem is probably really the Wacom driver, which sends every button press as a single tap, if you don't use the "Modifier way" or don't use a workaround with Autohotkey or Hammerspoon

Xavier wrote: ↑05 Mar 2021, 18:17

D.T. Nethery wrote: ↑05 Mar 2021, 17:48 Yes, it is only Flips shortcuts that are the problem. If I assign f to "TVPaint Animation: About" (or any other function) it will work when the Wacom Express Key button is pressed.

Xavier wrote: ↑05 Mar 2021, 17:40 But what now if you assign another button, like J or K to the Flips shortcuts ?

Ok, I assigned J and K to Flips shortcuts. It is the same result as with F or G. It works from the keyboard when pressing J or K , but when pressing the Wacom Express Key button it does not work.

It would make me crazy too
That said, we tried to reproduce the behaviour you describe, without "success" : the keyboard shortcuts worked when pressing the tablet buttons.

schwarzgrau wrote: ↑05 Mar 2021, 16:46 By the way I tried It and it doesn't work for me too to use the flip shortcut on the Expresskeys.

D.T. Nethery wrote: ↑08 Mar 2021, 16:12 User schwarzgrau confirms that my Flips shortcuts also do not work for him with Wacom Express Keys:

Dean wrote: ↑08 Mar 2021, 16:25 The tests we conducted were on Windows and MacOS, with an Intuos Pro and Cintiq 22. Both had functional shortcuts in TVPaint, sadly I don't think I can progress much more until Xavier returns and takes a look inside the code :/

schwarzgrau wrote: ↑08 Mar 2021, 16:18

D.T. Nethery wrote: ↑08 Mar 2021, 16:12 User schwarzgrau confirms that my Flips shortcuts also do not work for him with Wacom Express Keys:

By the way I just tried it and it works for me on Windows (Cintiq 22HD), but not on MacOS (Cintiq Companion 2).

Dean wrote: ↑08 Mar 2021, 16:36 Yes Jérémy is still part of the team, now to access the source code, remote work makes things a bit more complex. I will check with him.

• It does not seem to be a hardware issue. The Wacom Express Key buttons work to trigger their assigned shortcuts in every other software I use , including Harmony, Photoshop,
  Autodesk Sketchbook , and ALL other TVPaint shortcuts , except for Flip Manually shortcuts.

• Flip Basic works with the shortcut assigned to Wacom Express Key.

• Flip Directional works with the shortcut assigned to Wacom Express Key.

• Flip Manually does not work with the shortcut assigned to Wacom Express Key on Mac,
  but does work on Windows.

• All three Flips modes , Basic, Directional, Manually work fine when executed from pressing shortcut keys on the keyboard (on both Mac and Windows)
  but Flip Manually shortcut will not work when the shortcut is triggered by pressing Wacom Express Key button on Mac (but does work on Windows).

Dean wrote: ↑11 Mar 2021, 17:08 Okay we are going to focus our investigation towards the Manual flip, then!

Edit: just did the same tests with the Flip Manually on Matthieu's Mac and it worked, we are going to look further