How I hate CMD-B (and therefore the « Build » button too)

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Our project is huge and takes a long time to be compiled and linked.
We build an application may be less than once or twice a month.
We use at least about 100 times a day the CMD-V shortcut to paste code.
We use at least about 50 times a day the button « Run ».

Often, we do this very quickly.
And patatras :
CMD-B is just close to CMD-V
« Build » button is just close to the « Run » button.

→ Compilation starts and clicking on the « Cancel all » button has no immediate effect.
Sometimes it has simply no effect.
Then, after a while, we have to think to reset the « Non release version » number (even if the compilation has ben canceled)
It’s a long time wasted.

Why do we have a shortcut and a button for such a rare action ? And why are they so close to very frequent keys or buttons ?
For me they are totally useless.

The funniest is that in the last Xojo Release, the Online documentation shortcut (CMD-?) has gone though it was much, much more useful than the CMD-B……

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Command-B for Build ? It was a different one pre-Xojo (on the beginning). It tooks me years t-o se Cmd-B.

No Keyboard Shortcut for the documentation ? I already talked about it (2021r1 I think) and no one was concerned: they never read the LR… :slight_smile:

Now, we can talk about aqs; A for Command-A (SelectAll), Q for Command-Q (Quit) and S for Command-S (Save).

How many times a week someone use the wrong one (Q) instead of A or S ?
Without saving ?

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Preferences - General - Menu Shortcuts

Remove Command + B

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I have unbound the CMD-V shortcut. Makes my days easier. In Preferences, General pane, click the Edit... button under Menu shortcuts. Expand Project in the listbox, then double-click the Key column beside Build and remove the B.

Bah. @Graham_Busch Beat me to it while I was typing. :smiley:

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I’m very sneaky. I saw you typing thought I should get a quick response in :slight_smile:

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OK (and thanks) for the shortcut.
But we have still the #&@# button… :slight_smile:

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Well, that’s not new that if you click the wrong button, something else than what you expected would happen. This is normal in many apps and the cause of more than a single button most of the time :wink:
The only way for Xojo to prevent you to build by mistake would be to remove the toolbar button, menu item and command key equivalent (and the Xojo script command…); but then, it would get harder for anyone to build.

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On macOS you can add Application Shortcuts to specific apps using the Keyboard in System Preferences. Just make sure you spell the menu shortcut exactly like the one in Xojo.

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The IDE prior to Xojo would allow the user to re-arrange the icons in the toolbar. Now they are frozen. I used to have my build button all the way to the right, far away from the run button for this exact reason.

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You can disable the build button by not selecting any targets in build settings.

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Why so slow? Are you using Aggressive optimization? If so, then you should turn that off, and only use Aggressive optimization inside a custom build script…

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For years, I’ve changed the menus in macOS keyboard shortcuts:
Build to SHIFT-CMD-B so I can build it when I want to, but not accidentally hit it when pasting.
Step Out to F1
Step Over to F2
Step In to F3

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I would immediately forget these. Besides which, the left hand is not for typing, it’s for propping up the chin.

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