Possible to set screenshot key back to ' ?

Is there any way to set the screenshot key to just ', the way it was before? I'm guessing not, since we can't remap our keys (Which, by the way, would be nice! I can't imagine it'd be that hard...). It's just kind of a pain to use fraps instead, but it's more of a pain to use ctrl+', I take a lot of screenshots ^_~

I actually think the change is a good thing. Making the screenshot to disk hotkey CTRL+` instead of `makes it possible for those who tend to have a UI chat open to take screencaps without having to escape out of it first. I for one approve of the change since it means fewer missed shots to text boxes filled with ````` simply because I missed hitting the ESC key first. It also prevents the accidental tapping of that key and making a screenshot when it's not wanted (especially in high-res, where the screenshot takes a while to be saved).

Oh yes, don't get me wrong, I'm not saying this is a bad change neccesarily - I'm sure some people will like it, certainly when I'm lagging I quite often accidentally take screenshots when I try to type and don't get into the text box! It's just that, for me personally, I prefer the ease of having it be one button.

Really, that's why it'd be good to give a choice - Everyone's different. I'm sure LL must have their reasons, but it's pretty strange not allowing us to remap the keyboard, I mean games have had that for over a decade. Choice is good, and considering how open the rest of SL is it's very strange that just that area is so restricted... Still, as I said, I'm sure it must be harder than I imagine ^_^

In the meantime though I'll see if I can get used to ctrl+', and if not I can always use fraps... But it would just be nice to be able to choose!

I much prefer the ctrl + ` the change is most welcome to me.

I too often have hit ' when I want to hit esc, which I do very very often.

I still don't get why they can't make controls optional so we can choose the ones we want

Well I could understand it if we could use the other keys with scripts - If, say, you had an object that used 'J' to turn on and someone had set 'J' to be their fly key or their screenshot key or something it'd be awkward, and people would keep having to remap their keys to fit whatever attachments they bought. But since we can't do that either I can't see any reason not to be able to map keys... But then, I'm not a programmer, it must be harder than it looks or I'd imagine they'd have done it!

All I ask is a way to map keys and mouse clicks.

I play 5 different 3D-Avatar based games. All 5 heve different keys and mouse moves for avatar movement, camera movement, actions, first person/3rd person, etc. making it extremely annoying to go from one to the next.

Ironically the game with the BEST and most intuitive keyboard/mouse layout is City of Heroes which is the ONLY game I play with full keyboard/mouse mapping.

I REALLY liked the simplicity of just reaching up and smacking the ` key to take a screenshot. Why, oh why did this have to change to CTRL + ` ??? How is adding an extra step to this process a CONVENIENT thing?

A way to map the screenshot function to ANY key combination of our choosing would be much preferred over just changing something like this.

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EDIT: Oh whoops. I see another person has posted about this already. Sorry! But still!!

Merged the like.

I'll shed some light on this: I was one of the Linden testers on this. Indeed, I have a raucous pedigree for taking snapshots:

http://www.sluniverse.com/pics/UserList.aspx

Yes, a main reason why this was changed was to counter the the following problem: take pictures with chatbar open and get:

``````````````````

If you wanted to do that previously, you had to chord Ctrl-Shift-S, even more complicated and has an intermediary dialog. NOT good for action photog!

Internally it was actually Ctrl-Shift-` before this, but I was like "Ugh!"

I agree customized keymapping is very useful for many people's needs. I myself have Ctrl-Space for Instant Message--a crude but workable replacement which I set up in a macro program.

Better yet is if you have one of those special keyboards with extra keys you can assign stuff to.

ALSO!

The whole snapshot dialog is being *completely* reworked. Play with the new version here:

http://secondlife.com/community/preview.php

Thanks for the reply Torley! I didn't realise the new key combination let you take screenshots even with the chat bar open, that is pretty handy... I've done the ''' thing too ^_~

Snapshots being reworked sounds very interesting too! I'll have to check it out sometime, though I'm terrible at getting around to logging onto the preview grid, for ages I meant to take a look at floppy prims but I never did manage to remember... Are there notes on what's being changed anywhere by any chance? ^_^