Can the Ambient Menu of -> Snapshot > Icons or Windows or All (Files) have any keyboard shortcut(s)?

I have previously set keyboard shortcuts for View> Icons/List - toggling by using Cmd + -, and for quick swapping from the View> Icons / List / All Files / Thumbnails I use Cmd + =, but I just cannot figure out a way to be able to have a keyboard based shortcut to Snapshot the option to retain/save the choice selected for Icons / Window / All (Files) - does anyone know how to do this?

It used to be possible to enable this option on Amiga OS/WB 3.x with Tools Daemon 2.2 where then I used the RAmiga+] to toggle the option from one to the other, but with Ambient I just cannot find a way to enable it . . . as yet!

There are arexx-commands for snapshot und unsnapshot in Ambient. You can write scripts and call them with shortcuts, defined by mmkeyboard (https://www.geit.de/eng_mmkeyboard.html) or with CRABUM (https://igracki.lima-city.de/frames/progs/CRABUM.html).

Example unsnapshot Ambient:

/*
* $VER: unsnapshot.rexx 1.0 (08.08.2006)
*
* synopsis: unsnapshots icon and window positions from all
* icon files in a given path
*
* $Id: unsnapshot.rexx,v 1.2 2013/05/19 21:29:28 tokai Exp $
*/

parse arg path

tmpfile = 't:tmp'

address command 'list >t:tmp quick nohead '||path||#?.info

if(open(f, tmpfile, 'r')) then
do
do while(~eof(f))
line=readln(f)
if line~='' then do
address AMBIENT
'unsnapshot path="'||line||'" icons window'
end
end
close(f)
address command 'delete >nil: '||tmpfile
end


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Ambient documentation:

eg: Snapshot


Command:
- Snapshot
Synopsis:
- Snapshots the icon
Parameters:
- PATH: path of the icon to snapshot, if not supplied, path is taken from
the selected entries in the SRC lister or the selected object
- ICONS/S: snapshot the icon placement
- WINDOW/S: snapshot the window placement and size
- SELECTION/S: if ICON is set, when called from view, only selected icons are snapshot.
RC:
- 0: Ok

Docu can be found in Mossys:Ambient/Docs.

@ Amigaharry2 - I'm not sure I wanted to go through the writing of a script to enable this feature.

Though I did quite simply add a "New Directory" key with the Left Cmd + d to allow me to make New Directories very easily via the Ambient Keyboard input options, by using the "Custom Commands Hotkeys" - "Add a Hotkey" by using the command MakeDir %S which has worked out really nicely, and simple to implement, over the years.

I'm not sure that the ARexx command Snapshot could be implemented to suit my purposes as it would need to 'toggle' from Icons/Window/All(Files) or maybe I would have to use 3 separate keys on the keyboard to modify its functionality to suit my purposes - that's if the command suggested would be suitable to take on the functionality I intended in the first place.

Thanks for the suggestion anyway.

MakeDir is a dos-command, which you call from Ambient - nothing to do with Ambient itself. But there no such commands for snapshot and unsnapshot (or I have'nt found them till yet in C: or MosSys:c.
I'm no progger - so maybe anyone else here is able to write such dos-commands, including toggle-feature.

Neverthelss: Arexxcommands can also be called the same way you did with makedir. Toggle-feature.....? May be can done in AREXX - don't know.

@ Amigaharry2 - I am thinking about ARexx and using Snapshot - as a similar solution to my 'New Directory' option . . . if it is possible, so I will look into that option more closely, so thanks for mentioning it.