?Fx keys stopped working

[V&G]

Somehow functional keys stopped working as configured in [Shortcuts] section.
If I open Configuration -> Misc I see all mappings.
Wincmd.ini contains [Shortcuts] section with all mappings.
But all Fx keys respond with their defaults when pressed.

[V&G]

Very strange...
I've expired this behavior previously on 8.50. After installing the 8.51b1 the issue was solved. Somehow occasionally it appear again a couple days ago. I installed b3 - the issue resolved. Now it work as desired with my custom mapping.
Why is it broke?

[ghisler(Author)]

No problems here - I use some shortcuts very often.

Can you post your [Shortcuts] section and let us know which of them do not work?

[V&G]

At the moment, as I wrote, all shortcuts work properly after reinstall. Before that, I can say for sure that no one of Fx keys: F2, F9, F10, F11, F12 didn't work.

Here is my section:

[Shortcuts]
F2=cm_RenameOnly
F9=cm_CreateShortcut
F10=cm_Associate
F11=cm_CopyNamesToClip
F12=cm_CopyFullNamesToClip
C+O=cm_OpenTransferManager
C+1=cm_ClearCmdLine
C+2=cm_NextCommand
C+D=cm_DirectoryHotlist
C+G=cm_VerticalPanels
C+H=cm_SwitchHidSys
C+J=cm_matchsrc
C+S=cm_SrcCustomViewMenu
C+PGUP=cm_OpenNewTabBg
C+HOME=cm_GoToRoot
A+F10=cm_SelectCurrentPath
A+F11=cm_CopyTrgPathToClip
A+A=cm_SetAttrib
A+B=cm_visButtonbar
A+D=cm_FileSync
A+I=cm_ShowHint
A+K=cm_visKeyButtons
A+L=cm_UnloadPlugins
A+Q=cm_ShowQuickSearch
A+R=cm_OpenNetwork
A+T=cm_OpenControls
A+S=cm_SaveSelection
A+W=cm_visDirTabs
A+UP=cm_editpath
A+PGDN=cm_GoToDir
A+PGUP=cm_GoToParent
AS+S=cm_SaveSelectionToFile
AS+R=cm_LoadSelectionFromClip
S+F1=cm_CompareFilesByContent
S+F10=cm_EditPath
S+F11=cm_CopySrcPathToClip
S+F12=cm_CopyNetNamesToClip
CA+F5=cm_PackFiles
CA+ENTER=cm_OpenAsUser
CS+Q=cm_SrcQuickInternalOnly
CS+S=cm_LoadSelectionFromFile
CS+SPACE=cm_CountDirContent

[sky66]

I had encountered the same problem today, during handle some 7z files.
And I think I found the duplicate method...

Refer to "TCx64 opens twice despite of allow 1 copy policy"
http://www.ghisler.ch/board/viewtopic.php?t=39712&highlight=allow&sid=40df8be4ea7ed6acbe3dafb39bf16e1a

It looks like you start the second instance before the first one generates its window. This can happen on very slow machines.

... or on machines that have a high CPU usage at the moment of launching TC.

My notebook is not very fast, and have a high CPU usage during pack some 7z files.
And I start another Totalcmd(32bit, Chinese menu), so somehow it opens twice..
The 3rd Totalcmd did not show [2] or [3]Total Commander on the taskbar. See pic as below
http://thumbsnap.com/okdyazub

And the 3rd Totalcmd shown English menu, it is incorrect.
Now, the 2nd & 3rd Totalcmd "F2" does not work as cm_RenameOnly(redefined by me).

And then I tried to open Configuration => Misc. => Hotkey. => Cancel
After press [Cancel], the "F2" work fine as cm_RenameOnly.

[ghisler(Author)]

Since only the F-Keys didn't work, I assume that your keyboard has a special key to switch the F-Keys to multimedia or launcher mode. In this mode, they do not work as F-Keys, but have a different function.

[sky66]

Since only the F-Keys didn't work, I assume that your keyboard has a special key to switch the F-Keys to multimedia or launcher mode. In this mode, they do not work as F-Keys, but have a different function.

F2=cm_RenameOnly is I only changed hotkey for several years (may be since my company purchased TCMD license in 200?).
Now I also changed Ctrl+F=cm_SearchFor, and try to reproduce this problem on my notebook, 2GB ram / slower CPU&HDD / Win7 32bit.

After test, both F2 and Ctrl+F stopped working as configured by me.
Just working as default "Reread" & "Connect to FTP server"

And you can see another symptom as below.
http://thumbsnap.com/2zcn88HW
The menu is shown incorrectly, most of them became to English, only the items under "Start" is still Chinese. (All dialogs are in Chinese, no problem.)

So I suppose high CPU/RAM/HDD usage sometimes will cause Totalcmd did not load WINCMD.INI & *.MNU completely, and then Totalcmd will use default keyboard setting and English menu.

By the way, this problem can not reproduce on my desktop computer, 8GB ram / faster CPU&HDD / Win7 64bit.

[V&G]

I think I know what was happened..

My TC interface configuration moved to dedicated folder with references in INI to it.
I think I just moved the file TOTALCMD.INC with other menu configs to this folder and TC lost its keys mapping configurations... As I wrote, after re-install the problem was solved - this file was recovered and mapping became working again.