hotkeys to quickly toggle the overlay?

[megablue]

is it possible to implement hotkeys to quickly toggle the overlay? it will be great

[Eldenroot]

Not bad idea - for example F2-F12 keys - turn on/off the feature

[azeier]

Is there some elegant way of doing this?

[surasshu]

just one key to toggle all on/off would be really great. although i don't know what key would make sense. maybe the ~ button, like it's a console?

[azeier]

I meant code-wise :). Key(s) would be freely settable.

[surasshu]

hm, i see! foobar2000 has global hotkeys, so it must be possible, but i'm not a coder so i can't really help ;) merry christmas btw!! thanks for a fantastic tool :D

[Elitesparkle]

For example, you could toggle the "Hide (completely)" check box that's in Options > General with a key event. Pressing the chosen key, the check box will change status (if checked, uncheck it; if unchecked, check it).

[NightKev]

+1 on this, maybe you know of a good way to do it now?

[quark-zju]

This may help: https://github.com/thomaslevesque/NHotkey

[azeier]

Looking into it a bit, that might not even be necessary. This seems to work pretty well: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2450373/set-global-hotkeys-using-c-sharp

Not sure why I haven't found that before.

[azeier]

What kind of hotkey functionality would you guys like to see?

Some ideas:

• Show/Hide overlay
• No deck mode on/off
• Export Deck
• Import from web/arena/constructed
• Show HDT
• Show stats
• Close HDT (Restart HDT?)
• Start Hearthstone?

[NightKev]

"Clear last game/reset decks" would be nice.

[andburn]

I was thinking this would be more useful for overlay stuff, rather than the actual app itself. I like these:

• Show/Hide overlay
• Show/Hide damage
• Show/Hide timers
• No deck mode on/off
• Show HDT
  • probably don't need the import/export etc. with this, just do them normally?
• Screenshot with overlay (a new feature really 😄)

I wonder is there a nice way to implement this so things could be Hot-Keyable and allow a menu where keys could be assigned? Probably not worth the effort.

[quark-zju]

The RegisterHotKey is not hard to find. I thought that elegant means to avoid Win32 API directly :)

For operations inside HDT main window, I think the old-school menu item accelerators may be the more standard behavior. For example, Alt+E activates "Export" and then H = "Export to Hearthstone". Then we only need a global hotkey to bring HDT to front to use these key combinations.

Global (or, limited to "when HS is focused") hotkeys are something the user want to use in game. Toggling overlay elements is a use case. I personally want an "edit turn note" feature, press one key and then write down my mistakes on that turn.

[culinko]

Toggle show/hide: card marks, secrets panel. So far only these two came to mind.

[azeier]

Here's what's currently implemented:

Would attack, timers and secrets really be things you need to change often enough to require a hotkey? Secrets are hidden anyway if there is no secret active. I can somewhat see cardmarks.