Re: Menu Accelerators - help!
On 9/5/10 10:59 PM, Web Admin Himalayan Academy wrote: Find/F Find Again/G does not work , repeat... no go.. in fact I tried this first and when it did not work, (with suspend development tools on) that's when I tried using the additional ^ char Odd, I've been using that forever. I wonder if you've hit the bug where menu keys don't always trigger. It was an issue in the IDE too. You could try a test to see if that's the problem. If I remember right, choosing the menu item with the mouse will activate the menu. After that, keyboard shortcuts work again. If that's what happens in your stack, then your menu commands are correct but the engine isn't seeing them. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Menu Accelerators - help!
Sivakatirswami, If a keyboard shortcut in your stack duplicates a shortcut in the IDE, provided your application stack is top most (focused), the shortcut should still work even when working from the IDE. The Tip of the Week at RunRevPlanet has recently been looking at making menus, and this week just happens to be about keyboard shortcuts for menus: http://www.runrevplanet.com/index.php?option=com_contentview=articleid=177catid=57Itemid=65 Some of the information there may be useful. -- Scott McDonald Components, Stacks, Tools and Resources for Runtime Revolution www.runrevplanet.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Menu Accelerators - help!
For some reason, I've never been able to get menu accelerator keys to work as expected. the dictionary entry on this makes sense, but could use some examples. Seems straight forward enough... The syntax for menu item strings is: [flags] label ['/' accelerator ['|' tag]] where accelerator would be, in my case: modifiers char A very common requirement is Find and Find Again. This looks correct to me: Find/^ F Find Again/^G The menu shows the cmd symbol (os x) and the letter, but cmd-f does nothing but invoke the IDE's find dialog; if I turn of development tools, it still does not work. I tried these, since the IDE does not use them... as a test... Find/^U Find Again/^L But they are still unresponsive... and, if you enter an upper case character, does that mean the user has to use the shift key to make it work? I tried both, cmd-shift-U and cmd-U. neither work. What am I missing? Will these *only* work in a standalone? Thanks Sivakatirswami ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Menu Accelerators - help!
Swami, can't you just Suspend Developer Tools in the Developer menu? On 5 September 2010 19:29, Sivakatirswami ka...@hindu.org wrote: For some reason, I've never been able to get menu accelerator keys to work as expected. the dictionary entry on this makes sense, but could use some examples. Seems straight forward enough... The syntax for menu item strings is: [flags] label ['/' accelerator ['|' tag]] where accelerator would be, in my case: modifiers char A very common requirement is Find and Find Again. This looks correct to me: Find/^ F Find Again/^G The menu shows the cmd symbol (os x) and the letter, but cmd-f does nothing but invoke the IDE's find dialog; if I turn of development tools, it still does not work. I tried these, since the IDE does not use them... as a test... Find/^U Find Again/^L But they are still unresponsive... and, if you enter an upper case character, does that mean the user has to use the shift key to make it work? I tried both, cmd-shift-U and cmd-U. neither work. What am I missing? Will these *only* work in a standalone? Thanks Sivakatirswami ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution -- Stephen Barncard San Francisco Ca. USA more about sqb http://www.google.com/profiles/sbarncar ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Menu Accelerators - help!
On 9/5/10 9:29 PM, Sivakatirswami wrote: A very common requirement is Find and Find Again. This looks correct to me: Find/^ F Find Again/^G The menu shows the cmd symbol (os x) and the letter, but cmd-f does nothing but invoke the IDE's find dialog; if I turn of development tools, it still does not work. I tried these, since the IDE does not use them... as a test... All you should need is the slash and letter, like this: Find/F Find Again/G These should work whenever your stack menu is the system menu, (i.e., you stack menu has focus, it's in a standalone, or you suspend development tools.) The IDE catches the keystrokes if it has the focus. I think you only need to use the control character (^) if it is to be coupled with another one, like Cmd-Opt for example. But you're right we could use some examples in the docs. The release notes had a few. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Menu Accelerators - help!
On 9/5/10 4:48 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: All you should need is the slash and letter, like this: Find/F Find Again/G These should work whenever your stack menu is the system menu, (i.e., you stack menu has focus, it's in a standalone, or you suspend development tools.) The IDE catches the keystrokes if it has the focus. I think you only need to use the control character (^) if it is to be coupled with another one, like Cmd-Opt for example. But you're right we could use some examples in the docs. The release notes had a few. Find/F Find Again/G does not work , repeat... no go.. in fact I tried this first and when it did not work, (with suspend development tools on) that's when I tried using the additional ^ char ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Menu Accelerators - help!
Yes, did that still after IDE is suspended, the accelerator keys don't work. This has plagued me for years... On 9/5/10 4:35 PM, stephen barncard wrote: Swami, can't you just Suspend Developer Tools in the Developer menu? On 5 September 2010 19:29, Sivakatirswamika...@hindu.org wrote: For some reason, I've never been able to get menu accelerator keys to work as expected. the dictionary entry on this makes sense, but could use some examples. Seems straight forward enough... The syntax for menu item strings is: [flags]label ['/'accelerator ['|'tag]] whereaccelerator would be, in my case:modifiers char A very common requirement is Find and Find Again. This looks correct to me: Find/^ F Find Again/^G The menu shows the cmd symbol (os x) and the letter, but cmd-f does nothing but invoke the IDE's find dialog; if I turn of development tools, it still does not work. I tried these, since the IDE does not use them... as a test... Find/^U Find Again/^L But they are still unresponsive... and, if you enter an upper case character, does that mean the user has to use the shift key to make it work? I tried both, cmd-shift-U and cmd-U. neither work. What am I missing? Will these *only* work in a standalone? Thanks Sivakatirswami ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
