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>MINOR COMPLAINT #1: >I really like this program, but the keyboard shortcuts >for the review mode seem unexplainably inconvenient. >I don't like to use the mouse. Hitting Ctrl-Space, >Ctrl-A, Ctrl-backspace, and so on, for every card is >uncomfortable. I paid for this a while ago, but I >never use it. Instead, I made something crude in >Excel VBA that does the job, and gives me suitable >keyboard shortcuts. I used that for a long time to >study for the GRE. I later wrote something myself in >Java for studying Japanese kanji characters. But, I >like VTrain much better! Anyway, I think any single >key is okay for the training mode. There are 6 main >buttons in the review window. Perhaps they could be >mapped to F7, F8, F9, F10, F11, and F12? Or how about >insert, home, page-up, delete, end, and page-down? Or >how about the numbers on the numeric keypad? Any of >those would do the trick. > >THE QUESTION: >Besides just complaining.... Has anybody found a way >to change the keyboard shortcuts in VTrain 5.1? The >author suggested Perfect Keyboard, but that costs >money. It seems like such a simple thing, that maybe >somebody somewhere has made such a program available >for free. Maybe? Is there anything I can do directly >to VTrain to change the shortcuts? > >MINOR COMPLAINT #2: Actually not much of a complaint. > My old problem with VTrain was that it requires you >to type the answer. If you're using it for something >other than very simple vocabulary practice, then it's >inconvenient. It's much better to just try to >remember, look at the answer, and then decide if you >were right or not. But then I realized that with the >"I know the answer" button, you can do that. So, I >guess it's okay. I just thought I'd mention it, >because it seems that the program was designed with >little regard to this type of usage. I want to use it >to study for my graduate courses in computer science >now. That said, I know it's tough to make everybody >happy all the time, and the authors did a lot of >things right with VTrain. It sure beats some of the >alternatives I've used. > >Thanks! >Alex

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