Re: Keyboard shortcuts

On Sat, 18 Jan 2003 17:25:17 -0500 (EST)
Charles McCathieNevile <[email protected]> wrote:

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> Hi folks,
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> keyboard shortcuts are a really cool feature of Amaya - one of the 
> accessibility features it implements fairly well. (I know, there are 
> missing ones from time to time or conflicts - this is an open source 
> project, and this is an area that I would have thought the user 
> community could take a more active role, myself included).
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> In using the spanish and french versions I have realised and been told 
> by other users that there are problems and potential problems with some 
> shortcuts, because the keyboard mappings are different. For example on 
> a french AZERTY keyboard the "-" and "6" are on the same key, so using 
> them for zoom and h6 can create a conflict.
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> I was wondering if anyone has a quick solution for modifying this, so 
> that it is possible to launch a different shortcuts file according to 
> the keyboard mapping - this should be dynamically variable and take its 
> default from the X11 keyboard map or whatever the windows equivalent 
> is, but even having a configuration option would be a good start.

Amaya lets you customize your keyboard mapping.
You just have to define a file amaya.keyboard (Unix) or amaya.kb (Windows)
in your AmayaHome directory.
If people provide other examples of these configuration files, we will include 
them in our distribution.

> I presume that doing this would be a good opportunity to look at 
> different mappings for different profiles. In particular the idea of 
> having keys available in browser mode and different keys in editor mode 
> (similar to the way that vi works) has been discussed in the past. If 
> it is easy to change keymapping profiles this seems like a good 
> possibility.

Personally I don't appreciate that behavior in vi. It's often source of errors.

> I think this is also related to the ability to provide Amaya in 
> different default languages, although there might be no overlap in the 
> implementation.
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> Last important feature is to make sure that people know whether they 
> are going to lose their profile between upgrades (I think not but 
> haven't checked), and that they can take new mappings - for example for 
> new functionalities that didn't have them before.

Normally you should not lose these files between upgrades except if Installshield
does an extra job.

> So pointers to where in the code these things are effected would be 
> appreciated. If I make progress myself I will send comments, of course.
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> cheers
> 
> Chaals
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> Charles McCathieNevile           [email protected]
> Fundación SIDAR                       http://www.sidar.org

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