Tooltip names don't match key command names -- thus, difficulty finding commands

Cubase
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Different names for the same command
Very confusing: many “mouse over object” commands are labeled differently in the key command. Example:
Use Pre Roll is <> Activate Pre Roll
………… and many more
Very annoying!!!
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Hi and welcome to the forum,

The tooltip is not the name of the command in the Key Command window.

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that’s what the OP is saying

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Hi,

Sorry… I mean it doesn’t meant to be the same. It’s a different purpose.

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What is the purpose of them being different then, if that is intentional?

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I have not thought through all the scenarios, but shouldn’t the goal of mouse-over Tool Tips be identical to the name of the Key Command?

Or is that a bad assumption?

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My speech, the most obvious thing in the world

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Hi,

In general, a tooltip describes/explains the GUI object, so the user can understand its function, if he doesn’t understand the icon.

The Command is the name of the function. The command itself can fave a button or any other representation in the GUI. But it could be also present just on a menu.

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But due to the fact that tool tips include a Keystroke that’s bound to them, or are notated with “[!]” if no keystroke is assigned, it’s certainly a reasonable to expect that the tool tip would be the Key Command’s verbatim name. For example to find the command in the key commands dialog.

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Hi,

To find the command in the Key Command window, call the function. Immediately after, open the Key Command window. The latest function/command is preselected. :wink:

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But - a better design than the current would be to design the tooltips to this format:
{Name of command} - {description of what it does} - {currently assigned key command}

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ok, lets stick with just my (of many ,many others) topic “pre/post-roll”
go open Keycommand window, type in “activate pre-roll” and ?………NADA, RIEN, NOTHING, ZERO

to me, that seems not really logical nor user friendly. agreed?

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But this is frequently not the case in practice.

For example, click on each of these buttons which have tooltips that display the keyboard shortcut to demonstrate – the command is not selected when the Key Command dialog is opened directly after invoking the command:

  • Automation Panel image
  • Autoscroll: image
  • Snap image

and many more.

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There are several instances in Cubase 13 where tooltips seem to have haphazardly been thrown in there without much thought behind it. Here’s another example.
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