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Re: [RFC]: Make hotkey editor polished

 

I don't see why I can't try at disabling the original wxGrid behavior
at using the arrow keys (and home/end and other keys). I don't see a
point in retaining them in a hotkey editor.

On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 10:11 AM, Mike Crawford <mike@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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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Mark


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