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Unable to Properly Hotkey "Layer Toggling" Using Alt/Shift/Ctrl
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Blender Version
v2.76b

Short description of error
I do not have a numpad on this (small mechanical) keyboard, so I tried to remap the view3d.layers key bindings to use the ALT key. It seems that the code for toggling and extending a layer checks internally if ALT or SHIFT is pressed, so it is currently impossible to bind say Alt+1 to toggle layer 1. Similar issues for using SHIFT or CTRL keys exist. Fixing this would be of great help to those without a numpad.

Exact steps for others to reproduce the error

  • Edit User Preferences
  • Select Input Tab
  • Search for Key-Binding: 1
  • Rebind the 3D View / Layers mapping from 1 to Alt 1
  • Notice how Layer 11 is now selected when pressing the hotkey. Alt seems to be used to imply 'Add 10 to the layer'. If Shift 1 is used (and the other camera hotkey disabled), Shift appears to override the toggle behavior and force it to "Extend" similar to how it works on the Layers UI control.

Note: This seems to be a bug regardless of having Emulate Keypad enabled.

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Doug Cox (ziflin) created this task.Dec 1 2015, 2:51 PM
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Bastien Montagne (mont29) changed the task status from Unknown Status to Unknown Status.Dec 2 2015, 5:37 PM
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Thanks for the report, but still having way too much hard-coded shortcuts in Blender is a known TODO, not really considered as a bug currently.

Further more, no need to have an English keyboard (or one with a numpad) to use default layers shortcuts, it should work with pretty much any keyboard (at least, works here on my french one, without having to press shift or anything). Note that alt + number toggles layers from 11 to 20.

Doug Cox (ziflin) added a comment.Dec 2 2015, 5:57 PM

If you do not have a numpad (smaller laptops don't), and want to use the camera views on 1-0 keys, then I was not able to select layers. In order to fix this I attempted to remap the layer toggles to Alt+1-0, but because of hardcoded shortcut keys this can't be done. Is there some other task for this cleanup as it definitely seems like a bug?

Bastien Montagne (mont29) added a comment.Dec 2 2015, 6:11 PM

Getting rid of hard-coded shortcuts is in our TODO list afaik…