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October 27, 2011
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P: Ability to have Home/End key go to beginning/end of filmstrip

  • October 27, 2011
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Lightroom: Many times while working with a large number of images (any amount for that matter) while viewing using the filmstrip,especially while in the Slideshow or Loupview, but really any module. To very simply have a "HOME" and an "END" key. To very simply take you back to the beginning or the end of the filmstrip. One click, Done! No more scrolling and scrolling ! This would be HUGE!
dj

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Inspiring
February 1, 2012
I greatly miss the Home and End keys.
Expecting to move to and select the very first image in the film strip (respective the very last).
It is possible to navigate from one picture to the next (or previous) by the Right and Left arrow keys on the keyboard.
And possible to scroll forth and back using the mouse. Why not the Home and End keys?
br Henrik

ssprengel
Inspiring
October 27, 2011
Not for me, now, either, so I'm not sure.
areohbee
Legend
October 27, 2011
I agree - if there's a way to pull it off given limited keystrokes, a (preferably mode independent) way to get to beginning and end of filmstrip is desirable, even if not Home/End.
areohbee
Legend
October 27, 2011
|> in Library View, Ctrl-Left and Ctrl-Right navigate to the beginning and ending images of the selection in the thumbnail bar (or grid view)

Not for me. win7/64 Lr3.5 (ctrl left/right same as left/right plain).
ssprengel
Inspiring
October 27, 2011
Unfortunately, with a little more playing around, it is clear that Home/End and PageUp/PageDown have uses in Loup view so cannot be used to navigate the thumbnail bar as you want:

When an image is zoomed in to larger than to fit on the screen, Home/End go to the top-left/lower-right corners of the image, and PageUp/PageDown travel sequentially through the zoomed in image one screen at a time, to be use to examine every pixel of the image to look for problems. I didn't realize this until you asked your question, but it would be good to check for places where the spotting tool needed to be used.

About the only good news is that in Library View, Ctrl-Left and Ctrl-Right navigate to the beginning and ending images of the selection in the thumbnail bar (or grid view)while keeping the selection intact. It does not do this in Develop, though, for some reason.

In the Print module Ctrl-Left and Ctrl-Right jump by the number of images on each page in the layout with more than one image is on each page.

So it seems that most simple navigation keys are already used for particular purposes in limited contexts so cannot be used across all modules for something that navigates the thumbnail bar, except, maybe, Ctrl-PageUp/Ctrl-PageDown or Ctrl-Home/Ctrl-End which seem to do the same thing as without the Ctrl key.
dajon0510Author
Known Participant
October 27, 2011
Steve Thanks, there always seems to be a work around of some kind. I just want a simple button on the tool bar from within LR that will take me home or to the end. That will work whenever I am using the filmstrip.collections,different mods.
ssprengel
Inspiring
October 27, 2011
The only shortcut I know of (which at least works with Windows) is to go to Grid view, highlight all the thumbnails (using Ctrl-A or menu item) then if you press the left-arrow key you'll be at the first thumbnail with only that one highlighted and correspondingly if you press the right-arrow key with everything highlighted you'll be at the last thumbnail. Of course this only works if you aren't using a partial-selection to do something like drive a slideshow.

In Windows multi-line text boxes or documents with text in them, Home, End, Ctrl-Home, Ctrl-End, PageUp, PageDown, Ctrl-PageUp, Ctrl-PageDown, Ctrl-Left-Arrow, Ctrl-Right-Arrow all allow quick navigation through a list of items, either by words or lines or pages or document top and bottom. LR doesn't use any of these keyboard shortcuts, perhaps due to differences in the Mac and Windows interface and keyboard navigation conventions.