The first solution suggested by Michel was to allow "Shift+", "Alt+" and "Ctrl+" hot keys but there are issues with this suggestion. Using these modifier keys can clash with Windows or SCS Shortcuts. "Alt+" in particular I strongly discourage as it is used in Windows to trigger buttons or other controls that have an 'access key' (displayed as an underscored letter, eg Pause can be activated using Alt+U).
An alternative solution Michel suggested was 'Banks of Hotkeys'. Each bank would contain its own hotkeys and would be loadable (so you could prepare a hotkey bank for each scene, if you wish). This is my preferred solution. Implementing 'banks of hotkeys' would require at least the following:
- A new tab in Production Properties where the required banks would be defined. By default, every production (including existing cue files) would initially be assigned "Bank A".
- In Cue Properties, for Hotkey activation types there would be a new drop-down list for 'hotkey bank'. This would precede the key selection drop-down list, so that list would be populated according to the selected bank.
- A new sub-cue type to 'load hotkey bank', which would populate the hotkey panel with hotkeys for the selected bank, and obviously also force SCS to only monitor hotkeys for the currently-selected bank.
, and another for playback tracks and stuff as well as the ability to add things to a page on the fly :- Kind of useful for more spontaneous events rather than structured theatre or awards shows.