bug report Keyboard shortcut "P" (Preferences) not working while in Start Screen

[Rogério]

When I try to activate Preferences using the shortcut "P" while Start Screen is being shown, nothing happens.

 

[chris.r]

Right, I have to click with mouse the empty space behind Start Screen and then it will work. I posted a problem of similar (of maybe the same) kind of issue in the EA2 thread.

[Canopus]

As far as I know, the Cakewalk Start Screen is actually a separate program called CakewalkStartScreen.exe stored in the folder C:\Program Files\Cakewalk\Shared Utilities\StartPage. That’s probably why it doesn’t react to keyboard shortcuts recognized by CbB.

Edited April 23, 2021 by Canopus

[Noel Borthwick]

That is correct

[Rogério]

17 hours ago, Canopus said:

As far as I know, the Cakewalk Start Screen is actually a separate program called CakewalkStartScreen.exe stored in the folder C:\Program Files\Cakewalk\Shared Utilities\StartPage. That’s probably why it doesn’t react to keyboard shortcuts recognized by CbB.

 

8 hours ago, Noel Borthwick said:

That is correct

I understand that this is an internal technical justification, but it does not solve the problem.
Nothing prevents CakewalkStartScreen.exe from capturing the keystrokes and sending them to Cakewalk.exe.

[Noel Borthwick]

Start screen is going to go away and be replaced by something much better in the future, So no further work is planned for Start Screen itself until then.