Thanks Chris, I will work through your instructions, but do I read your notes to suggest what I expected that there is a step that can only be interactive?
If so how do we distribute shortcut(s) ? Regrds Tones On Tuesday, 26 January 2021 at 14:08:09 UTC+11 clutterstack wrote: > Hi Tones, > > To test, I made one to pop up HelloThere in a modal, by following the > directions in the Keyboard Shortcut Tiddler tiddler. > <https://tiddlywiki.com/#Keyboard%20Shortcut%20Tiddler> > > Overview: I had to create two tiddlers, then go into Control Panel -> > Keyboard Shortcuts to set the key combination for the shortcut. > > I called my shortcut "canscut". > > First I made a tiddler with an arbitrary title, whose text field contains > the action I want the shortcut to invoke; in this case: > > <$action-sendmessage $message="tm-modal" $param="HelloThere" /> > > I added a field with name key and value ((canscut)), and tagged it > $:/tags/KeyboardShortcut. That takes care of setting up the actions and > the reference key so the shortcut can be referred to in macros without > being opinionated on what its specific key combo should be. > > Then I created the tiddler $:/config/ShortcutInfo/canscut -- I didn't > have to put anything into it; that's enough to add a row into the > appropriate part of Control Panel -> Keyboard Shortcuts, so that the key > combo can be set interactively. Once I used that interface to set the key > combination, the tiddler $:/config/shortcuts/canscut was generated with > shift-cmd-G in the text field. > > And voila, now if I hit shift-cmd-G, I get the HelloThere tiddler in a > modal. > > Hope that helps, > Chris > On Monday, January 25, 2021 at 8:24:56 PM UTC-5 TW Tones wrote: > >> Have you found a easy to use way to create your own global shortcuts? >> >> I found a few times trying to understand the keyboard shortcuts some gaps >> in the doco. First I would like to understand, then update the doco. >> >> Tones >> >> On Tuesday, 26 January 2021 at 12:12:03 UTC+11 clutterstack wrote: >> >>> Haha, I'm just looking at the source for the keyboard-driven-input >>> macro and it has five nested keyboard widgets, so I venture a guess >>> that there's not an obviously better way just now. >>> >>> Best, >>> Chris >>> >>> On Monday, January 25, 2021 at 7:56:55 PM UTC-5 clutterstack wrote: >>> >>>> Thanks Tones, >>>> >>>> I had another look at the global keyboard shortcuts, and I haven't >>>> tried it, but the presence of duplicate key combinations in the shortcut >>>> list does make me hopeful that I might be able to just add more duplicate >>>> global shortcuts and have them work appropriately with a macro that only >>>> works under, as you say, given conditions. It does sound like something >>>> that could require careful thought to avoid conflict. But definitely >>>> something to think about! >>>> >>>> For now, I think I'll leave my nested keyboard widgets in place, since >>>> they work and haven't caused me any grief, unless it's through a >>>> performance hit. I certainly have other optimisations I can focus on! >>>> >>>> Best, >>>> Chris >>>> On Sunday, January 24, 2021 at 4:58:22 PM UTC-5 TW Tones wrote: >>>> >>>>> Clutterstack, >>>>> >>>>> I am no expert in keyboard shortcuts for sure, but with 5.1.23 we can >>>>> now use the modifier keys, so alt- shift- ctrl- can be interrogated in >>>>> the >>>>> actions macro if appropriate you can then use one key, 3-4 modifier keys >>>>> so >>>>> perhaps a global short cut that responds to conditions and modifier keys >>>>> is >>>>> another approach. >>>>> >>>>> Regards >>>>> Tones >>>>> >>>>> On Sunday, 24 January 2021 at 15:02:39 UTC+11 clutterstack wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Hi all, >>>>>> >>>>>> I have, in some of my macros, three nested keyboard widgets to listen >>>>>> for three different key combinations. I'm just wondering whether this is >>>>>> the best way to accomplish that. I don't think I want to assign keyboard >>>>>> shortcuts for the whole wiki, because I may want different actions for >>>>>> the >>>>>> same key or key combination, based on the event target. >>>>>> >>>>>> Am I missing something? >>>>>> >>>>>> Best, >>>>>> Chris >>>>>> >>>>> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/6b27f1a7-a337-440c-af4b-8cdec4f5cd90n%40googlegroups.com.
