[haiku-development] Re: Menu shortcuts without Command key
- From: Stephan Assmus <superstippi@xxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 11:07:33 +0000
On 2009-09-09 at 21:23:26 [+0000], pete.goodeve@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 04:45:28PM -0400, Ryan Leavengood wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 4:31 PM, Kate <rogueeve@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Is there any way to create a menu shortcut (hotkey) which does not
> > > require Command/Alt to be pressed to activate it. e.g. for an IDE, I
> > > want the "build and run" command to be F7. According to the Be Book
> > > this is impossible because Command is already set in the modifiers
> > > mask by default.
> >
> > Yes currently it is not possible to make a single key shortcut with
> > BMenuItem. I don't necessarily agree with this limitation, but I know
> > at least Rene who responded before is STRONGLY against making it easy
> > to use single key shortcuts.
> Are his reasons documented anywhere? I'd agree that allowing single
> alphanumeric keys would be crazy -- far too easy to do something
> unintentional -- but it seems to me that that is what function keys are
> sort of... *for*! Especially as they are otherwise fairly pointless in a
> GUI mode.)
I think it should be made more easy to assign function keys as shortcuts.
That's what they are for after all... In the Debugger source code, you can
see how the function handling could look:
src/apps/debugger/gui/team_window/TeamWindow.cpp:121ff.
Best regards,
-Stephan
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