Emma & Jordi products install deleted Visual Menu hot keys -resolved

nowefg

I just installed, (manually - DS 4.12.0.86,) the Emma & Jordi UIs and Styles product, and their Easy Pro Render Suite, hoping for a better, more readable interface, and to hopefully make things generally easier.

When I opened DS, I found that my many and complex Visual Menu custom preset menus wouldn't work. Checked Workspace/Customize/Custom Actions and found that all my hot key assignments for the double digit Visual Menus I previously created had been removed, somehow, by the install process of one or both of the EJ products. I used several of them just this morning, then did the EJ intalls, and they were gone.

Luckily, a Windows System Restore gave me back my Visual Menus hot key assignments.

I have no idea which one or both of these EJ products overrode or erased them, since they both play games with the interface.

I have to say that I didn't find any significant Install instructions for the UIs and Styles product, as regards the zip file containing the AppData folder. There's no real path, or only half of one, just AppData/Daz 3D/Studio4, which I don't have on my machine. So I put it.in the only appdata folder I know of, my own, Users/AppData/Roaming/Daz3D/Studio4 folder. The specific EJ files are still in there, but not functioing ( I presume) because I haven't rerun the Install from the content library icon. That's a guess. I'm just relieved that i got those VM hotkeys back.

I also find that I have an apparently new, never-before-noticed folder on my system drive now: C:/Daz 3D/Applicaitons/Data/Daz3D//Content Database/ContentCluster... Don't recall ever seeing that one, as all the DS program files on my machine go in C:/Program Files/Daz 3D etc. or Users/AppData/ etc. I hate when this sort of thing happens.

Does anyone know if these Emma & Jordi products can be installed without deleting existing Custom Action hot key assigments for other products?

 

EmmaAndJordi

Hi nowefg.

The installers that our UIs and Styles product have are not made by ourselves. They are the standard Daz product installer.

Maybe it's because some strange factor that it makes that problem in your computer. It may have to deal with Windows, the software, or whatever OS, or just your PC wants to annoy you, as it happens to all of us sometimes.

The product for UIs just installs actions, menus, and toolbars, it doesn't move the hotkeys. The Easy Pro Render Suite is a script, doesn't tocuh any keyboard shortcut neither. The installer is a Daz product standard installer.

The UIs are thought to replace the menu. Maybe if you have custom menu items, you can save your UI before, and keep your menu instead of using our menu, or add it afterwards.

There is a pdf included in the product that say how to load the interfaces, and it says it is encouraged to save your current one first. That way you can restore what you need if something went wrong.

Maybe you can save the hot keys before, then install the product, and then restore the hotkeys. That way you can recover them anyway.

Please see if this helps.

nowefg

Thanks. There's really nothing strange about it. I have over a teabyte and a half of data files, most all purchased from Daz, many of them yours, and all manually installed with no issues.

That said, Script products are something of a special case, I guess. I have had issues with them before. Visual Menus, itself, is not without hiccups.

It does sound like " UIs just installs actions, menus, and toolbars, it doesn't move the hotkeys." may be at issue. All I can say is that, prior to installing it, my Visual Menu hot key-shortcut assigments were intact, in place, and working, and, immediately after the UIs install, they were gone. A Windows System Restore brought them all back, but minus UIs.

My PC never annoys me, by the way, it loves me. But there are some tiny little 3d gremlins that do enjoy wreaking havoc on my peace of mind...

EmmaAndJordi

We saw that there is one way to mix your menus and actions. First save your layout as it is, with the menu in the 1st image. (please do it, it is very important)

Then load for example, the EJ Expert interface.

Then save a new layout, giving it a new name, like in the second image, "Mixed interface". As there are several options, select in Actions and Menus, your original own interface, and for the toolbars, select EJ 4 - Expert

When you load the Mixed Interface, it should keep the menu and actions that you had, but change the rest of the interface to EJ 4 Expert.