Cross-post from LAVA: http://lavag.org/topic/15619-ctrlshift-shortcuts-sometimes-not-working-in-labview/
Bug Synopsis: CTRL+SHIFT+Alpha shortcuts do not work in LabVIEW. Most notably, CTRL+SHIFT+Z, CTRL+SHIFT+E, and CTRL+SHIFT+S
Test setup: LV2012 32bit with f1 patch running in Win7 64bit inside a Parallels 8 VM in OS X 10.8.1
To summarize the testing I have tried:
- Many different LabVIEW, Guest OS, and Host OS combinations all fail, including:
- LV2012f1 32 and 64 bit, and LV2009 32 bit
- Win7 32 and 64bit, and also WinXP x64
- Parallels 7 and Parallels 8
- OS X 10.7 and 10.8
- Capturing the keyboard by the VM
- Twiddling every keyboard setting possible on Parallels, Guest, and Host
- Reinstalling keyboard drivers
- Plugging in a known-good keyboard that works on a native Windows machine
- Deleting LabVIEW.ini and letting it regenerate
- Remapping the shortcuts from, e.g., CTRL+SHIFT+E to CTRL+E - in this case, "Show in Project" works, so this might indicate it's a problem registering the shortcut press, not invoking the action itself.
- Sending the keystrokes via on-screen keyboards from both Guest and Host
- Sending the keystrokes via SendInput from user32.dll WinAPI
- Testing every imaginable combo of FN, CONTROL, ALT/OPTION, COMMAND/CMD, SHIFT
- Reinstalling VMs from scratch and reinstalling LV
- Here's a kicker: CTRL+SHIFT+Alpha shortcuts work fine on other Windows programs (I've tried 4 different programs, including Chrome, Notepad++, Paint.NET), yet it does NOT work for VIPM with CTRL+SHIFT+C. This means that the only two programs where the CTRL+SHIFT+Alpha bugs exist are both LabVIEW-related.
- Here's another kicker: It's only CTRL+SHIFT+Alpha shortcuts with the prob - CTRL+SHIFT+3 properly toggles grid alignment, and the "Tools >> Options >> Menu shortcuts" will register any CTRL+SHIFT+Non-alpha shortcut; it just does not respond to the CTRL+SHIFT+Alpha shortcuts.
Any new troubleshooting ideas are highly appreciated; please feel free to jump in here or on LAVA.
