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

Hernan Wilkinson hernan.wilkinson at 10pines.com
Fri May 10 07:23:35 PDT 2019


I like the idea! time to implement it Eric :-)

On Thu, May 9, 2019 at 6:39 PM Eric Brandwein via Cuis-dev <
cuis-dev at lists.cuis.st> wrote:

> 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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