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| Title: | DECWINDOWS 26-JAN-89 to 29-NOV-90 |
| Notice: | See 1639.0 for VMS V5.3 kit; 2043.0 for 5.4 IFT kit |
| Moderator: | STAR::VATNE |
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| Created: | Mon Oct 30 1989 |
| Last Modified: | Mon Dec 31 1990 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 3726 |
| Total number of notes: | 19516 |
921.0. "customize key question" by CADSE::WALLERT () Mon Jun 12 1989 11:04
I am part of a group that is designing the user interface for DECwindows
applications for CAD/CAM/CIM applications. In our meetings, we have had
a lot of discussion about the possibility of context-sensitive customization
of accelerators using a 'customize key.' For example, if you wanted to
bind a key to a menu item, you would pull down the menu and position the
pointer over the item you wished to accelerate. Then you would press and
release the 'customize key' and then release MB1.
Although the idea sounds interesting, we were wondering is it technically
possible to design a customize key? Would we have to have our own special
copy of existing widgets (such as the help widget, etc) to build in the
customize key?
- Catherine
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| 921.1 | Why Not? | HGOVC::KENBERKUN | People that melt | Tue Jun 20 1989 02:07 | 9 |
| Sounds to me like it should work...of course I haven't tried it.
Basically you're talking about changing accelerators on the fly, and
you should be able to do that with XSetVal. The other question is can
you detect a keypress while you've got a menu pulled down - and I don't
see why not - but see caveat on first line!
ken b
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| 921.2 | what about after a keypress? | CADSE::WALLERT | | Wed Jun 21 1989 12:40 | 11 |
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What we are really worried about is determining the action to take
after detecting a keypress. We assumed that it is possible to detect
the keypress when a menu is pulled down because that is how context-
sensitive help works. Someone in my group heard that context-sensitve
help is built into all of the widgets though....and if we defined
our own context-sensitive key that we would have to have our own
versions of all of the widgets. Is that true?
- Catherine
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