[Cuis-dev] Missing 'Show category (C)' shortcut

[Eric Brandwein]

Yes, that's pretty close to what I was thinking.

El jue., 9 may. 2019 a las 17:33, Phil B (<pbpublist at gmail.com>) escribió:

> Eric,
>
> On Thu, May 9, 2019, 3:12 PM Eric Brandwein via Cuis-dev <
> cuis-dev at lists.cuis.st> wrote:
>
>> Hello devs,
>>
>> The 'show category (C)' method shortcut isn't working, so here's a
>> ChangeSet that fixes it.
>>
>> Maybe we should find a way to unify options with shortcuts, so this
>> doesn't happen again. Plus, making an abstraction for shortcuts would make
>> it easier to change them from a Menu or a Browser. Right now, they are
>> hardcoded in the methods that handle control keys. What do you think?
>>
>
> I was thinking along similar lines the other day: we have menus (window,
> morph), keyboard shortcuts and context menus.  Right now they provide all
> sorts of flexibility but are done in a fairly ad hoc ways that are a pain
> to customize.
>
> The thing is, they are all typically doing the similar kinds  things:
> exposing morph or model functionality to the user.  It's just a question of
> how/where.  So why not generalize it and provide a universal structure to
> define these snippets of functionality?  Then you just need to map it:
> 'this is triggered by ctrl-d', 'this goes on the morph menu' etc.  We could
> even provide a mechanism to customize or override via morph properties.
> Dynamic functionality would require more thought and there may be some use
> cases that might not fit into this kind of approach, but it seems like it
> would work for the majority of cases.
>
> Would something like this address what you had in mind?
>
>
>> Cheers,
>> Eric
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>
>
> Thanks,
> Phil
>
>>
>>
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