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[jean-pierre charras <jp.charras@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Le 06/09/2011 11:51, fabrizio a écrit :
> Hello,
> in attachment you can find the simplest patch I can think of to:
> 1) add the Alt- to all "Place" menu accelerators
> 2) leave current hotkeys behaviour unchanged
>
> is this whole idea good?
>
> ctrl-alt-L needs to be changed (in the hotkey default set up I think)
> because it makes my system log off ! can we changed it? what do you
> guys propose? any other hotkey cause conflicts?
K or O should work.
> I am not sure it will work in windoz/OSX.
>
> Please let me have some feedback
>
> Cheers
> Fabrizio
> PS Jean-Pierre, I have noticed that you added a close button at the
> bottom of the new hotkeys window, this is very cool but as consequence
> it does not allow the window to stay open while people use kicad.
> Maybe novices, who do not really know yet the hotkeys, wish they could
> keep both windows open (as I originally made it), what do you think?
> Can we keep the button but allow both window to stay open?

In fact this is an existing dialog (already used to show missing libs when loading eeschema or cvpcb )
that is used to show the hot key list.
The button is needed to close this dialog by the ESC key, under wxGTK
( this is one of features needed by our UI policy guideline:
 see Documentation/guidelines/UIpolicies.txt)

Due to the fact it is derived from a wxDialog, it is modal,
and cannot be left open when you want to work on the schematic window.

I do not think this is an issue because:
- This is a large window, and ( unless you have 2 monitors )
work on a schematic when the dialog window is left open is not easy.
- Hot keys are displayed in all menus, so novices have hotkeys info each time they open a menu.
 (This is surely the best way to know hot keys )

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Jean-Pierre CHARRAS