[haiku-development] Re: Shortcuts that require shifting don't work

  • From: "François Revol" <revol@xxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 19:32:51 +0200 CEST

> If a shortcut requires shifting to get to the character for the
> shortcut, it won't work. The obvious example is Cmd-+, which is
> frequently used for zooming. The normal plus key on most keyboards
> and
> keymaps is the shifted =. Since the shift key can also be used to
> define the shortcut, we obviously have a problem. Of course on full
> size keyboards the plus key is available unshifted by the numpad, but
> that doesn't help laptop users.
>
> Other OSes seems to deal with this correctly, so it may be worth
> looking into how they do it. Did BeOS also have this problem? I think
> so because I can recall adding Cmd-= as another shortcut for zooming
> in ShowImage.

ALT-1,2,3... never worked in BeOS for azerty.
Nor does it work in Haiku yet IIRC.

François.

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