I added fully customizable keyboard / single character graffiti support in
CVS. So you can do such things as bind "m" to pop up the menu, "down" to
go to the next link (this one is a default setting), etc. The keyboard
map is stored in a PlkrKeyboardMap database, so one can beam it between
units, distribute custom maps, etc.
Some notes:
1. The UI is rather rudimentary. If someone wants to prettify it, please
go ahead. (Adding help would help, too.)
2. Right now the handling of up/down keys is messy. First Plucker checks
if custom up/down keys are enabled. If not, it pages through the
text. If so, it uses the SELECT action bound to them. This could be
simplified by always enabling the SELECT action and just binding it by
default to FULL_PAGE_UP/DOWN. Next, all unhandled keys are checked
against my the keyboard map, and the right SELECT action is chosen (but
the page up / page down keys are not included in my keyboard customizer to
remove duplication). All of these three things could be rolled into my
keyboard customizer, removing the Pref options for selectable page up /
page down keys, as well as for the other hard keys while one is at
it. But I don't like removing Pref options as it creates backwards
incompatibilities. One could even simplify the code by getting rid of the
hard key and arrow key pref dialog entirely, except that it is a
friendlier dialog than my keyboard customizer.
3. Some keys will not be compatible with gestures being enabled. Right
now a warning is shown. It would be smarter to have a dialog box and ask
the user when such keys are entered.
4. I added a menu trigger SELECT control. I re-ordered the last couple
of SELECT controls, too. This means that if you had something bound to my
TOGGLE_TOOLBAR or TOGGLE_FULLSCREEN controls, you will need to fix these
bindings. Since the latter two controls have only been there a couple of
days, I hope this tiny bit of lack of backwards compatibility will not be
a big deal.
5. The cleaner could be made to delete PlkrKeyboardMap. But the CLEAR
button in the customization menu might be enough.
6. I am rather bad at trying to find short descriptions of things in
English (or in any other language, for that matter). So some labels in my
UI might use some improvement.
7. And of course now there is a whole bunch of new stuff to translate for
multilingual versions.
Alex
p.s. I've noticed that a bunch of things in util.c don't conform to the
coding guidelines. But who am I to speak?
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Dr. Alexander R. Pruss || e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Philosophy Department || online papers and home page:
Georgetown University || www.georgetown.edu/faculty/ap85
Washington, DC 20057 ||
U.S.A. ||
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