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Hello, Chris!

Attached is an idea/wish, how it could look like.
I hope I am not too demanding/picky... ;-)

On 2016-01-07 15:28, Chris Pavlina wrote:
> Hey, can I get a couple more people to test the latest version of my
> hotkeys patch? Particularly someone on OS X, as I've not run into the
> guy who usually guineapigs my stuff on OS X since finishing it... :)
> Though testing on ALL platforms is welcome.
>
> https://github.com/cpavlina/kicad/compare/options.patch
>
> Make sure setting hotkeys works for all keys, that everything looks
> halfway decent, no unexpected behavior, etc... Hotkeys can be reset by
> right-clicking them in the list and choosing "Reset".

Double-clicking and more popping windows to show text which could
be already there... hmmm... not my favorite. :-/
I prefer to use spreadsheet style editing, so F2 should also edit a field.
Put as much information in place as long as it doesn't overload the user.
Reduce clicks as much as you can.

"Reset" Button might be named as "Reset (all?) to defaults" with
a confirmation is popping up: "Are you sure, you want to reset
all Hotkeys in current (whole tree(==all)/just current branch?) to
it's defaults?"

> The 'helper' dialog I used seems to be a fairly popular approach for
> this - it's fairly difficult to catch *any* keypress on a control
> embedded in a complex window, there's too much trying to steal
> navigation keys and whatnot. In my testing (on wxGTK and wxMSW Win10) it
> seems quite robust.

Can you simply avoid/hide that dialog as it doesn't ideally need to
give additional bold-face information?

> Thank you all in advance. :)

Thanks for working on this great piece of software!

Regards,

CKO

On 2016-01-07 15:28, Chris Pavlina wrote:
> Hey, can I get a couple more people to test the latest version of my 
> hotkeys patch? Particularly someone on OS X, as I've not run into the 
> guy who usually guineapigs my stuff on OS X since finishing it... :) 
> Though testing on ALL platforms is welcome.
> 
> https://github.com/cpavlina/kicad/compare/options.patch
> 
> Make sure setting hotkeys works for all keys, that everything looks 
> halfway decent, no unexpected behavior, etc... Hotkeys can be reset by 
> right-clicking them in the list and choosing "Reset".
> 
> The 'helper' dialog I used seems to be a fairly popular approach for 
> this - it's fairly difficult to catch *any* keypress on a control 
> embedded in a complex window, there's too much trying to steal 
> navigation keys and whatnot. In my testing (on wxGTK and wxMSW Win10) it 
> seems quite robust.
> 
> Thank you all in advance. :)
> 
> --
> Chris
> 
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