Keyboard shortcuts on non-US keyboards

Question

I have been using Lightroom for some time now, and as with all programs I want to use the keyboard shortcuts.
These are fairly straightforward in LR, and most of them work like a charm, but some, which use non-alphanumeric keys such as [ ] / \ - = and many more do not work on a non-US keyboard (in this case Danish). Most of these keys have moved around quite significantly on my keyboard, and not only are they mapped differently, but the physical layout of the keyboard (and labeling of course) is also different from the standard US-keyboard.
My question is: How (or where) do I find the right combinations?
As an example, zoom.
Zoom in is Ctrl/Cmd+= (equals sign)
Zoom out is Ctrl/Cmd+- (minus sign)
Zooming out works nicely in spite of the minus key being different from the standard US-keyboard (located in the lower row next to the Shift key where the US key is in the top row)
But I haven't been able to zoom in. The equal sign is in the top row, but as a shifted zero, so also different from the US keyboard. No matter what combos I use, I cannot zoom in using the keyboard.
Same thing goes for a lot of other shortcuts. Like toggle filters which is backslash on the US-keyboard. I have a backslash, but as an AltGr-key combined with < and >, and when I use it, it does something completely different, namely shifting between two compared images, a function which I can't even find on the list of keyboard shortcuts http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/lightroom/keyboard_shortcuts.html
Does anybody have a clue about:
- Where I can find keyboard shortcuts for foreign keyboards
- If I can remap keys to do as expected
- Do anything else to get shortcuts to work
And no, changing to a US keyboard does not help. My keys are physically different and labeled differently, and shifting does not work anyway...
Martin

Answer 1

Martin,
I assume you're using LR in English (I don't think there's Danish)?
You can achieve what you want by building/modifying the TranslatedStrings.txt file with your modifications in there. For all languages LR is translated into, such a TranslatedStrings.txt file exists (in the "\Resources\xx\" directory below the program installation path), but for English it would have to be created (there is no \en\ directory below\Resources\).
KeyboardTamer does nothing else than modify the TranslatedStrings.txt file, but it can only do it for shortcuts provided for in the PlugIn. You could create a file "C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3.3\Resources\en\TranslatedStrings.txt" and describe the different shortcuts in there.
The problem is to find out what you have to write into there. For this, you could take lines out of a TranslatedStrings.txt file of another language (i.e. German), and put them (possibly changed) into the English file. Note that only changes must be present in TranslatedStrings.txt, the rest comes from the program.
Example:
The line describing the shortcut to zoom in in Library is coded as follows in the German TranslatedStrings.txt:
"$$$/AgLibrary/KBSC/incrementThumbSize=#"
I changed it to be
"$$$/AgLibrary/KBSC/incrementThumbSize=$"
because # is not accessible without a modifier key on the German keyboad, hence the shortcut does not work,
So the lines to be entered in the file are not that easy to find, but with some creativity (i.e. searching for "=.....", where .... is the shortcut-key that does not work) you should be able to solve most of them. Also, the so created TranslatedStrings.txt should additionally be saved in some other place than the program directory as well, becaus after a new installation it would have to be copied into the resources directory again.
Beat Gossweiler
Switzerland
Message was edited by: b_gossweiler (minor text corrections)