I’m getting this error message when I press Alt+S for the spline tool
Thanks
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I’m getting it on mine, too. Perhaps @Douglas can have a look, please?
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On it. Should be an easy fix.
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Ok… I’m baffled. There is only 1 instance of Alt +S… I have no clue where this coming from. 
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Just confirming that the same thing happens in the Linux build.
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Which means it’s not a Windows shortcut… although I did discover that Alt + Spacebar opens CoPilot. 
I’m actually building with the Alt+S disabled for the Spline tool to see what Alt+S triggers.
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Well this is really bizzare. The Alt+S is opening the Save As dialog, even though the short cut is set to Ctrl+Shift+S.
And yes…Ctrl+Shift+S also opens the Save As dialog.
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This is getting bizzare the more I dig.
Can anyone confirm… you have to press Alt+S+S… and then the Warning pops up?
I’m completety baffled. With my build with the Alt-S disabled for the the Spline… If you open a prexisting pattern make a change and then press Alt+S nothing happens. If it’s a new unsaved pattern pressing Alt+S brings up the Save As. ???
I could change the Interactive Spline shortcut to Shift+S, but then it breaks the pattern of the rest of the tools, and it means then the Shortcuts dialog needs editing and ALL the translations need updating. Arrggg.
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OMG… how stupid of me. I put 3 and 4 together and figured it out.
Here’s a clue… look at the Icon text and what do you see?
This is the action for the Save menu item… and it’s text is &Save… guess what the “&” means? It means Qt assigns that action with the shortcut Alt plus the char that immediatlely follows it… in this case “S”. i.e Alt+S. It doesn’t show up in the ui source code as the compiler replaces the “&” with “Alt+”. Which is why a search of the code only showed the shortcut for the Spline tool. Oy vey. 
And of course I was getting the Save As… as with a new unsaved pattern it defaults to Save As.
In case anyone is wondering why the &Save… it’s a legacy from DOS days when you would be able to activate the tool bar & select menu items via the alt key.
Pressing Alt activates the toolbar and the items that are underlined char have a shortcut.
It’s also a way for blind users to navigate menus. For example if you press Alt+H+A… you will get the About Dialog.
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Ah, our chief entomologist! Well spotted!!!
I remember these from the pre-mouse days where you used the alt to get to the menu & then the arrow keys to go down to the item you wanted. 
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Yeah… who knew Seamly had an Entomology dept. 
Yup. The Alt “acellerators” were a way to traverse the menus in the days before mice and keyboard shortcuts. I’m finding - as usual - they present a bigger issue when translations are taken into account. For example some languages translate Save into a word that now begins with “A”… which then conflicts with the Alt+A for Arc’s… so you have to remove any “&A” translations. I got all the “&S’s” and “&A’s” removed, but I’m thinking of just removing all the acclerators at some point as most of those menu items have a shortcut anyways.
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Hmmmm… I think you’d know best.
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