On Sat, Aug 10, 2002 at 11:40:39AM +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> Perhaps I have a poor attention span, but I've long had a problem with
> keeping my key mappings and functions-present-in-menus in sync; I would
> generally like to be able to do most things with a keystroke, and would
> still like every such action available in a menu if brain fade prevents
> me remembering the magic keystoke.
>
> Thus today's exercise. Two functions, KeyFn and MouseFn to set a key or
> mouse mapping and also record it in a menu:
>
> # KeyFn menu desc keyname context mods "cmd-and-args"
> DestroyFunc KeyFn
> AddToFunc KeyFn "I" Key $2 $3 $4 $5
> + "I" AddToMenu $0 "$1" $5
>
> # MouseFn menu desc button context mods "cmd-and-args"
> DestroyFunc MouseFn
> AddToFunc MouseFn "I" Mouse $2 $3 $4 $5
> + "I" AddToMenu $0 "$1" $5
Nice idea. Here's an enhancement that displays the key binding
in the right column of the menu:
+ "I" AddToMenu $0 "$1<Tab>($4-$2)" $5
Replace <Tab> with a real tab.
> Now my menu definitions are a bit wordier, but nothing will
> slip through the cracks:
>
> DestroyMenu WinOps
> AddToMenu WinOps "Window Ops" Title
> KeyFn WinOps "Desk Windows" L A M "WindowList (CurrentDesk) Alphabetic SelectOnRelease
> [...]
> KeyFn WinOps "Raise" H W CS "Raise"
> KeyFn WinOps "Lower" H W CS "Lower"
> MouseFn WinOps "Resize" 1 W M "Resize"
> MouseFn WinOps "Move" 2 W M "Move"
> Mouse 3 W M Move
> [...]
>
> Remark on that last: I often have mouse 3 do what mouse 2 does because I
> switch keyboards a lot. So one incantation for M2 to put it in the menu,
> and a conventional binding for M3 to match.
Bye
Dominik ^_^ ^_^
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Dominik Vogt, dominik.vogt_at_gmx.de
Reply-To: dominik.vogt_at_gmx.de
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Received on Sat Aug 10 2002 - 16:47:21 BST