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[Alain Mouette <alainm@...>]

That will be very nice, thanks :)

I am looking forward to a day when everything is definable as hotkeys. I 
was used with Tango and Orcad to assign a lot of hotkeys, and it ended 
up making life easyer...

The real problem with hotkeys, and in what aspect Kicad differs from the 
rest, is that I could do many more single key operations. Explaining: if 
I wanted to move labels (which is common as the last thing on a board) I 
jut had to select the layer, point with the mouse and hit *one key* 
for "M"ove... This is so much different than kicad behaviour that I 
wonder if it can ever be achieved... Once Move is activated, I could of 
course use the subcommands "R", "X" and "Y", which is present in some 
Kicad functions but not all.

Alain

Dingo_aus escreveu:
> Ok, so I want to cut my teeth on some development to start helping this 
> project out.
>
> I was thinking of adding the relevant hot-key to the tooltip for each 
> button in eeschema. I intend to do this intelligently by looking up the 
> hotkey value and insterting - so that changes to hotkey will flow 
> through automatically.
>
> Before I go off on a frolic of my own and do this, does anyone have any 
> objections? ie UI design rules, size of tool tips etc?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Nigel
>
> (aka Dingo_aus)
> Australia