Keyboard shortcuts for (long) options menu

Jorge Arellano Cid <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.dillo.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi there,

  I  Just committed a patch for those long option menus that take
a long time to scroll to the desired item.

  It  jumps  to  the  next  menuitem  whose label starts with the
pressed key. If there's more than one item starting with the same
letter, it goes to the next one, then wraps.

  This  works  when  the OPTION menu is _focused_, not displayed.
FLTK  has  a  hacked  way  of handling menus which will change in
FLTK3 [1] [2] (It still amazes me how some simple things can take
so much guess work with FLTK).

  Making  shortcuts work when the menu is displayed would involve
copying  a  lot  of code and dealing with hackish FLTK internals,
which  is  not stable, and most probably not worth the effort. It
seems wiser to use this workaround until FLTK3 solves the problem
[2]. 

  So  far  it works quite well for a page with a very long option
menu I happen to use very often. Please test.

  How?  just  focus  the option menu with two clicks (one popups,
the  next  one closes it, but leaving it focused), then press the
desired key (first letter of your item label), and voila.

  BTW,  I  remember  corvid  made a comment on this long ago, but
couldn't find the post...

  @corvid: you may feel like adding utf8 support.

  HTH


[1] http://fltk.org/newsgroups.php?s1060+gfltk.general+v1070+T0+Qmenu+scrolling
[2] http://fltk.org/newsgroups.php?s1080+gfltk.general+v1087+T0+Qmenu+scrolling


-- 
  Cheers
  Jorge.-
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