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[Mike Crawford <mike@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Question on your new hotkey editor.  Will there be a way to use the arrow
keys as hot keys with it?  With the current one all that happens when I try
to use them is the focus is shifted from the field.  I'm eventually looking
to add hotkeys for panning, and I'd love to use the arrows for that.


On Tue Oct 07 2014 at 4:52:48 AM Mark Roszko <mark.roszko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> New changes pushed to branch
> (https://code.launchpad.net/~mark-roszko/kicad/kicad), the interface
> has been revised a bit more heavily.
> Sections are now split into tabs!. This helps immensely bringing
> attention to different set of keys easily rather than a large list.
> The selection logic has been tweaked to use the native wxwidget
> selection cursor instead of bolding. Also no more bolding of sections
> titles. Your dream come true Wayne! :P
>
> Preview of UI: http://i.imgur.com/cfgq5mU.png
>
> TODO:
> 1. Fix overwrite detection between "common" tab and other section
> tabs. Right now overwrite detection is constrained to the keys in the
> same list/tab.
> 2. Add better names for the tabs, not 100% sure how to do this
> cleanly, the EDA_HOTKEY_CONFIG has the tag member and comment member.
> The tag member gets used in the config file but the comment field
> looks silly and could just be changed to be a pretty name.
> Alternatively I just add a pretty name member to the struct.
>
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