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Hi!

I do not wish to treat what I am going to request as a matter of absolute necessity. I am aware that it may seem like a somewhat unusual and very low priority request, but it is something that would help me to be more productive (reduce time) and that is why I am going to suggest it:

It could be possible to let the end user modify the short cut keys for menu items?:

If this is not possible or it is just something that the developer will prefer not to do it, then this is my secondary request:

Could you help me to let me know how can I modify, through reverse engineering, the ALT+F4 hotkey for a ESCAPE key instead? (to close the program using ESCAPE key).

I have very basic knowledge of reverse engineering. By very basic I mean insufficient and incompetent to do advanced things, but basic enough to understand some basic things.

In other programs, such as the Winamp audio player, when opening the executable file in a resource editor like Resource Hacker, there is a resource folder named "Accelerators" in which I can modify the program's hotkeys to my liking by changing the Virtual Key codes.

But this resrouce folder is not present in the Renamer.exe executable file.

It could be possible to implement this resource on Renamer.exe executable?.

On my last attempt, I also tried to open the Renamer.exe in a debugger (x64dbg) to try find the event-handler method that is handling the ALT+F4 key press for that menu item, but this kind of reverse engineering is something that is beyond my knowledge. I can't even find the WNDPROC procedure that processes the WM_KEYDOWN / WM_KEYUP messages, and anyway I am not able to understand disassembler code from this debugger to know what I'm doing.

So that's where my attempt ends.

I am able to develop a simple console program (or a Windows service) in .NET, or just a script with AutoHotkey, that keeps running in background and intercepts an ESCAPE key press in my keyboard to send ALT+F4 to the Renamer window that has the focus, that would do the job for me, but I only consider this as a last resort, because I don't like the idea of keep running external tools / dependencies just to be able use a different hotkey in a specific program. So I would prefer to know if there is a possibility of finding a more direct solution, by modifying the executable file through reverse engineering, or by implementing this capability directly in Renamer's user-interface settings page.

Thanks for your time!

Last edited by Elektro (2024-09-29 18:55)