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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@...>]

Dick Hollenbeck wrote:
> Manveru wrote:
> 
> 
>> But it should be solved by ActionManager pattern, where all action are 
>> stored in one place independently where they are used and any 
>> connection between menu item, toolbar item, command and keyboard 
>> shortcut (hot key is application independent to lanuch some general 
>> feature of your system or extension) are passed by it or its elements 
>> (how to spell it: storagee?). Then if you know some action has a 
>> keyboard shortcut and tooltip text, it could be easily asked for to 
>> display on demand.
> 
> 
>> But I do not find such action manager fully implemented with all 
>> required features, some partially implementations are in GTK+ and Qt, 
>> but from what I've investigated for my other projects, they miss some 
>> important functions.
> 
> The concept is a good one. Implementing would best be done on 
> wxWidgets, not on GTK+ or Qt for us. Looking at the surface of a deep 
> murky pond, I think reaching the bottom might be possible.

Take a look at wxKeyBinder at
<http://wxcode.sourceforge.net/components/keybinder/>. It is written by
one of the primary wxWidgets developers. The last time I tried to build
it, the sample segfaulted on GTK. That was over a year ago so perhaps
this has been fixed. It's design fits in with wxWidgets very well. It
would require a complete redesign of the Kicad hot key implementation.
It is a command event based design like wxAccelleratorEntry rather than
a virtual base class method implementation of the kicad hot keys so I'm
guessing that it would be quite a bit of work to fit this into Kicad.
It would also add another dependency so that may be an issue. However,
it is a fairly complete solution with a built in shortcut key editor,
automatic updating of menu labels, supports multiple short cut profiles,
etc. I thought it might make it into the next version of wxWidgets like
wxProperties did. Maybe it will make it into wxWidgets 3.2.

Wayne

> 
> Dick