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Re: Quick update on hotkeys refactor

 

A tool tip might prove useful rather than adding instructions to the
dialog itself.

On 1/6/2016 10:30 AM, Bernhard Stegmaier wrote:
> Just a small note:
> I think it would be good to also somehow carry over the text on how to change hotkeys like it was in the old dialog.
> I didn’t change a hotkey before and I didn’t knew if/how to do it before I tried the old dialog in the old version (and read the description there).
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Bernhard
> 
>> On 06 Jan 2016, at 16:19, Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Okay, a couple of bugs have been pointed out to me related to how wx 
>> handles "special" keys in various controls. Apparently OSX users can't 
>> set hotkeys at *all*, and on other platforms certain keys can't be set. 
>> I'm working on a fix for this, probably will have to rip out that bit of 
>> the logic and rewrite.
>>
>> I'm not going to submit a new patch until it's fully tested on all 
>> platforms, with all keys and in all of the applications. That'll take a 
>> few days. In the meantime, hotkey assignment is somewhat broken. Wayne, 
>> feel free to revert 6422 and 6424 if you want (or don't, it's up to 
>> you), I'll have a working version soon.
>>
>> Apologies for the buggy noise. I'll have to test wx-related things 
>> rather more thorougly in the future.
>>
>> --
>> Chris
>>
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