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Ctrl-p To Parent Keeps Breaking..........My Heart :(
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OS: Windows 10
CPU: Xeon 1231 v3
GPU: GTX 1070 Strix 8gig
RAM: 32gig

Blender v 2.81a
Broken: Using Ctrl-p to parent objects works fine after fresh install but something unknown to me breaks it and the command will no longer register via keyboard shortcut regardless of wiping the cache and/or factory reset.
Works fine if selected manually from a tab/window, but keyboard shortcut is perpetually broken on all installed versions of blender until all versions are uninstalled/reinstalled.
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For me at least, the attached .blend file will not allow parenting of any kind if the command is called via the ctrl-p shortcut. parenting can only be done through a menu regardless of whatever mode is currently active.

Unable_To_Parent.blend529 KBDownload

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Jim (Jimbones) created this task.Jan 26 2020, 8:59 AM
William Reynish (billreynish) changed the task status from Needs Triage to Needs Information from User.EditedJan 26 2020, 11:01 AM
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I could not reproduce the issue.

It seems likely that you may have accidentally overridden the Ctrl-P shortcut to do something else. Try going to File > Defaults > Load Factory Settings, or go to Preferences > Keymap and reset any changes. Then re-test and report back.

Jim (Jimbones) added a comment.EditedJan 27 2020, 12:27 PM

Hi,
Thanks for taking a look. Unfortunately i've had little luck resetting to factory..
Seems whatever keys I bind to the ctrl-p command remain broken and just don't register at all. Even worse I dont think theres any way to reproduce it in a sharable way since the .blend seems unaffected. :/
The really strange bit is that the "p" key seems to work fine on its own, and the "ctrl" key seems to be working fine on its own as well, but "ctrl + p" only works a couple of times right after a clean install and then randomly not at all regardless of whatever version of Blender I try it on.
Currently my workaround is to bind the parent command to one single key that blender isn't using, instead of prefacing said key with ctrl.
Thankfully that at least seems to be working okay so far....fingers crossed it stays that way. :)
If I can find the cause or a way to reproduce I'll come back and post my findings. Hopefully it's just something dumb that I've overlooked on my end. (which is entirely possible..) :D

Oskar (Oskar) added a subscriber: Oskar (Oskar).Jan 27 2020, 5:15 PM

Is it possible that some other program on your system (that is always on) is using this shortcut? You can try to kill all the programs and processes that are not native to Windows, restart blender and test the shortcut.

Campbell Barton (campbellbarton) closed this task as Archived.EditedJan 29 2020, 12:19 AM
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Closing since this is more of a support ticket, not an error in Blender's code.

If you manage to find reproducible steps that point to an error in Blender, open a new report which clear instructions for developers to follow.