[chaoscope] Re: wish list
- From: Dan The Hat <danthehat@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: chaoscope@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 09:56:30 -0500
You could just have users map their own shortcut keys. I'm not
exactly a programming aficionado, so I wouldn't know how much
time/energy/coffee you would have to put into something like this.
Speaking of which, what exactly is Chaoscope programmed in? Is the
source freely available?
Cheers,
Dan the Hat
On 8/17/05, Chaoscope <chaoscope@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Grumps, hello all,
>
> > Just a wish for next version if possible. How about remapping a couple
> > of keys please to get away from the F3 mistake. Normally when it
> > happens I just shrug it off and think I'll come across the same one
> > again one day/month/year/century, but was on to something interesting
> > in unravel, went to hit F4 and got the dreaded F3 again. Yes I know
> > we've been told about it, but some of us have disabilities, that one
> > has no control over (mine is mutiple sclerosis), and sometimes the
> > hands shake when they should have shook.
>
> I don't know what I was smoking when I mapped the shortcut keys. "F3" is
> the standard key for "Search" under Windows, but it's clearly a mistake
> to have put the Render shortcut next to it. An alternative workaround
> would be to allow you to go back to a previous search, which would take
> very little time to implement.
> I also want to have "Escape" to interrupt search and rendering rather
> than "Shift-F3" and "F5", we'll probably have both in 0.3 to let users
> get erm... used to it.
>
> > Anyway, no great loss, was only a whole bunch of 0's & 1's (one way of
> > looking at it to keep the sanity in check). A workaround for this for
> > those that may have similar problems or are interested, is to get a
> > keyboard remapping program. I've set up one for me and now run it when
> > I use chaoscope to help avoid the problem. Just takes a bit of
> > retraining in the head to get used to it. My setup is as follows;
> > F5=F4, F6=F5 & F7=F6. Kept them in the same left to right order so it
> > won't be to confusing. Now have a big gap between the render key and
> > the random search key.
>
> Good idea! What does everyone think about shortcuts as they are right
> now? Would you like to have more of them to control the interface?
>
> Nicolas Desprez
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