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I'm writing an application to edit behaviour trees. The application has individual trees, but also a collection of all of the trees in our application. I have a toolbar which has two "Save as..." options: One for saving the whole collection of trees, and one for saving the current tree.

Currently, we have Ctrl+S already reserved for a normal save, and Ctrl+Alt+S reserved for the settings menu.

I can use Ctrl+Shift+S and Ctrl+Shift+Alt+S for both of these options, but I don't think that is the best solution since having to press 4 keys for the "Save as..." option is a bit much.

So my question is: What keyboard shortcuts should I use? What is the best way to bind these to the "Save as..." buttons?

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  • Why would someone save one tree but not the others? If you're editing multiple trees at once but only saving one, you're discarding half your work.
    – PixelSnader
    Apr 4, 2019 at 9:48
  • What operating system are you developing your app for?
    – Serg
    Apr 4, 2019 at 13:24
  • Linux and windows. The current application only supports the editing of one tree
    – DezeDjude
    Apr 4, 2019 at 17:19

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I think the most used save as should get a more common keybind, for example Ctrl+Shift+S. For the second one, a similar shortcut should be used, which can use more keys, if and only if they are easily pressible. In this scenario i think that Ctrl+Alt+Shift+S might be a good solution. IntelliJ uses a similar approach with Ctrl+C. Copying uses Ctrl+C, Copying the path uses Ctrl+Shift+C and copy reference uses Ctrl+Shift+Alt+C.

So Ctrl+Shift+S and Ctrl+Shift+Alt+S seem appropriate to me

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