I think Louis has found all of the keyboard actions and then some. -- replying below to -- From: Louis Suárez-Potts [mailto:lui...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2015 16:34 To: dev@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Re: [CODE] keyboard shortcut definitions
Kay, > On 22 Jan 2015, at 17:58, Kay Schenk <kay.sch...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Does anyone know where I can find information on where actual keyboard > shortcut definitions -- the actual escape sequences -- are defined for > use in OpenOffice. I found an old thread on where the menus are defined > -- the *.xcu files -- but the not the actual ascii sequence assignments. <orcmid> Well, they are not actually ASCII sequences except when the UI is working in some sort of terminal mode and programs are seeing some- think like what ncurses provides. I am not certain where you are looking for where key codes are Recognized or used in Apache OpenOffice. It would help to know. MORE INFORMATION (but maybe not helpful?) For the garden-variety "ASCII keyboard" of the sort that eventually became the standard on PCs and many comparable devices, the keyboard works a bit differently, with key codes and state codes delivered to the software and indications of when a key is going down and when it has release back up. Operating systems intervene, so how keyboard actions are delivered is very much up to the software drivers that translate what is happening at the keyboard to something the OS wants applications to see. The resulting binary codes might correspond to ASCII characters, but many keys and combinations do not. Whatever those patterns are by the time keyboard actions are delivered to an application, they are a bit more complex and have already been transformed. Looking at the second link provided by Louis, the Accelerators.xcu shows an interesting technique for naming the keys (explained in the table just ahead of the Accelerators.xcu listing). This copes with the modifiers (Shift, Ctrl/Cmd, and Alt) along with the namings Of ordinary keyboard keys given in the appendix, at least for most of a standard PC keyboard (although I see missing keys in the Appendix). I suspect there are integer codes for all of the defined Key Identifier strings. Not sure where defined though. Here's how it works on Windows, but AOO probably has some mapping that works across platforms: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd375731(v=vs.85).aspx and this is without adding modifiers to the virtual-key codes. </orcmid> > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > MzK > > "There's a bit of magic in everything, > and some loss to even things out." > -- Lou Reed > Probably these data are out of date. If so, I'm sure that someone more up to date and with more current brain cells will supply the correct information. At any rate…. * https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/DevGuide/Config/Configuration_Management * https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Framework/Article/Accelerators_Configuration and my fave, https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Framework/Article/OpenOffice.org_3.x_Commands These are to a degree (I hope) somewhat superseded with the 4.x code. What I did—and I'm sure you did this better—is just enter a natural language search in the AOO wikis. I also briefly looked through my old files from earlier CVS and SVN checkouts. louis --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
