Ability to hold keys

When I work with a drawing tablet I use the streamdeck for shortcuts. This is mostly fine, but I ran into some limitations. For example in Krita there are a few shortcuts that require a mouse action while a key is held: shift + click-drag to resize the brush, ctrl + mmb-drag to zoom, ctrl + click to sample a color, etc.

Currently, if I press and hold a button on the streamdeck, the associated key(s) get pressed and released, instead of being held.

[dodgyrabbit]

Interesting idea. Perhaps this should be the default behaviour? I.e. if you press the Stream Deck button, they keypress combination is pressed. If you release it, the keys are released.

Note that it is possible to have a series of key presses. We would have to decide if it just holds the “last” set of key presses or a specific group.

For example: alt+F4, F11 means press alt and F4, then release them, then press F11 and release F11.

So if we added this hold logic as the default, which keys should be held? Option 1 None of them - only works if there’s one set Option 2 The first group alt+F4 Option 3 The last group F11 Option 4 We add a modifier keyword hold to a group, that means hold this group combination until the key is released. For now, this would only be possible on one group. In theory, we could make it work for multiple groups - but that would mean you need to press the button multiple times to complete a command - which could be confusing.

hold+alt+F4, F11 - this means, press alt then F4 and hold them until the Stream Deck button is released. When released, press F11 and release F11 (no hold).

alt+F4, hold+F11 - this means, press alt then F4 then release them, then press and hold F11 until the Stream Deck button is released. Then release F11.

Syntactically hold can be anywhere in the group. Thoughts?

[Koppany99]

I think your option 4 is the most versatile, but I would like to suggest a few other examples/use cases:

• if it is a singular set, hold functionality should be the default
• alt+F4, hold+F11, j - This means press and release alt+F4, press and hold F11 (release it when the streamdeck button is released), then press and release j
• alt+F4, hold, F11 - This means press and release alt+F4, do nothing until the streamdeck button is released, then press F11.

This would give the user an OnPress - OnRelease functionality. Also, I think a hold alt+F4 syntax would be nice as it can be conceptualized as “dynamic delay”