Hello, Keith and all.
Yesterday I picked up WordWeb Pro with the Chambers thesaurus app and set up a key combination to invoke it globally through the Services menu. The combo I chose was CMD+OPT+SHIFT+W, which you’ll immediately recognize as Scrivener’s shortcut for Close Project and Clear Interface Settings. I fully admit I should have checked whether Scrivener had already taken this combo, but I did not, and when I returned to the project in question, my interface settings had reset to their defaults.
It set me to thinking—for a feature like this, might it be advisable to include a little warning or confirmation box before proceeding? It is an action that results in the user losing work, maybe not to their project, but to all the little UI tweaks that accompany it.
Ideally we save our settings the moment we get everything just so, but there can be changes made and toggles flipped along the way that we may forget to re-save. A little ‘are you sure’ dialog box with maybe an option to save out your current settings before clearing them might go a long way to communicate the gravity of the consequences.
Again, I take full accountability for charging in without first checking whether that key combo was available, but my line of thinking was, “This shortcut uses so many modifiers, there’s no way it’s already taken.” And because I know the suspense is killing you all, I’ve since moved my thesaurus shortcut to CTRL+OPT+W. Unless missiles are being launched somewhere, this one seems a delightfully benign choice.
Anyway, thanks for considering this addition, and thanks again for creating the greatest piece of software there is.
-Sam