MacArthur, Ian (SELEX GALILEO, UK) wrote:
>> On FF3 for Mac, the buttons have NO shortcuts indicated.
>
> Maybe they ran into this too and just chickened out of making a
> decision!
LOL, could be.. I don't know much at all about Cocoa.
I avoided it when I found out 'objective c' was involved, and
wanted nothing further to do with it.
FWIW, you can make letter shortcuts for buttons in the native
GUI builder. I just now opened Mac's "Interface Builder"
(Mac's 'fluid'), and "felt around" for a way to make button
shortcuts (doing a 'Help -> Search: Shortcuts' didn't show
anything useful)
Pretty easy; like fluid, you first create a window widget,
then drop a "Button" on it. Then open "Tools -> Show Inspector"
(equiv of fluid's Property Editor), and found you could make
keyboard shortcuts at the "Key Equiv" prompt, which has both
a regular text input field, and a pulldown menu with a limited
list of function keys, escape keys, stuff like that. But I found
I could make e.g. just the letter 'b' a shortcut for the button
if I just typed 'b' in the Key Equiv input field.
When I then ran the app in "File -> Test Interface" mode,
hitting 'b' did indeed push the button.
So it 'can' be done even from Mac's GUI builder.
What I couldn't figure out is how to make the letter in the
button's label "underlined"; when in the label editing mode, the
font style "Underline" was grayed out. 'Bold' was available though..
weird.
I guess a tooltip could advertise the shortcut somehow. Or you can
probably make it underlined from code, just not in the gui builder?
Anyway, that's enough native mac stuff for me today.
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