>When you press & hold for more than about a second, you will get the original function. If this does not work for the Play button, can you confirm it works when the <ALT> button is assigned to Disp, RingFunc or Print ?
Play: as mentioned above no way to get it into <ALT>. Tried again and again had to reinstall CHDK. Probably best to take out at some point.
Print: works best for all but my use case where my underwater (UW) house for the camera is probably pressing the button under pressure. Anyway, the button when selected for the <ALT> function works great. Short press for <ALT>, longer press for any shortcut it can be set to by the default Canon system.
RingFunc: works great during playback. It also works fine in live mode in the automatic (Auto) mode because the RingFunc button has no function there. However in Manual (M; but also Av, Tv, and P) modes the RingFunc button will perform it’s default action in addition to entering the <ALT> mode. No matter how short I press the button, this will happen. To be clear it will go into a selection menu for the Ring Function and it will enter <ALT> mode at the same time. I can somewhat work around this by a full shutter press but it’s clearly not desirable.
Disp.: works really well in live mode where this button has no default function. And then in Play mode, this button listens well to the “about a second” rule. When briefly pressed, it goes in and out of <ALT> reliably and when pressed for about a second it gives the original functionality. Great, this functionality gives me a perfect work around for the bad port of the Print button in my UW house.
Thanks again and let me know if more testing is needed.
