[Pharo-project] Keymapping KMShortcut combining
Hi, Is it possible in Keymapping to have an alternative as shortcut ? I would like to map Tab/Shift Tab and Ctrl Tab/Shift Ctrl Tab to get next/previous focus to work with Spec, and I would like to be able to return a keystroke as Character tab | Character tab ctrl. For those interested, I'm trying to look at http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=6657 and: http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=6656 I have solutions for both : code that does 6657, and a way to disable all legacy shortcuts for 6656 for Spec applications on a per instance basis, without overriding or removing any existing code. Thierry -- Thierry Goubier CEA list Laboratoire des Fondations des Systèmes Temps Réel Embarqués 91191 Gif sur Yvette Cedex France Phone/Fax: +33 (0) 1 69 08 32 92 / 83 95
On Sep 11, 2012, at 2:58 PM, Goubier Thierry wrote:
Hi,
Is it possible in Keymapping to have an alternative as shortcut ?
I would like to map Tab/Shift Tab and Ctrl Tab/Shift Ctrl Tab to get next/previous focus to work with Spec, and I would like to be able to return a keystroke as Character tab | Character tab ctrl.
For those interested, I'm trying to look at http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=6657 and: http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=6656
I have solutions for both : code that does 6657, and a way to disable all legacy shortcuts for 6656 for Spec applications on a per instance basis, without overriding or removing any existing code.
ok thanks for the info I do not know if this is realistic but my goal is to kill any harcoded key shortcut so that we can plug what we want. Now I need time.
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On Sep 11, 2012, at 2:58 PM, Goubier Thierry wrote:
Hi,
Is it possible in Keymapping to have an alternative as shortcut ?
I would like to map Tab/Shift Tab and Ctrl Tab/Shift Ctrl Tab to get next/previous focus to work with Spec, and I would like to be able to return a keystroke as Character tab | Character tab ctrl.
Yes, keymapping allows combinations as ctrl tab, ctrl shift tab, and also sequences (cmd a followed by cmd shift c).
For those interested, I'm trying to look at http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=6657 and: http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=6656
I have solutions for both : code that does 6657, and a way to disable all legacy shortcuts for 6656 for Spec applications on a per instance basis, without overriding or removing any existing code.
you mean disabling only in spec? The idea is to move all shortcuts to keymappings but I'm out of time right now :(.
Thierry -- Thierry Goubier CEA list Laboratoire des Fondations des Systèmes Temps Réel Embarqués 91191 Gif sur Yvette Cedex France Phone/Fax: +33 (0) 1 69 08 32 92 / 83 95
On Sep 11, 2012, at 7:52 PM, Guillermo Polito wrote:
On Sep 11, 2012, at 2:58 PM, Goubier Thierry wrote:
Hi,
Is it possible in Keymapping to have an alternative as shortcut ?
I would like to map Tab/Shift Tab and Ctrl Tab/Shift Ctrl Tab to get next/previous focus to work with Spec, and I would like to be able to return a keystroke as Character tab | Character tab ctrl.
Yes, keymapping allows combinations as ctrl tab, ctrl shift tab, and also sequences (cmd a followed by cmd shift c).
For those interested, I'm trying to look at http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=6657 and: http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=6656
I have solutions for both : code that does 6657, and a way to disable all legacy shortcuts for 6656 for Spec applications on a per instance basis, without overriding or removing any existing code.
you mean disabling only in spec? The idea is to move all shortcuts to keymappings but I'm out of time right now :(.
+1 :) Sadly, I am out of time too :s Ben
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I've seen the combination and modifiers for Keymapper already; what I would like is the alternative : Either Character tab or Character tab ctrl (because I've linked tab to nextFocus in a TreeModel, and ctrl + tab in a TextModel (since tab can't be used)) Ok, not much of a gain anyway, so no need to add this to Keymapper. Ben, Guillermo and Stéphane, in AltBrowser, all hard-coded shortcuts are desactivated and only the AltBrowser defined shortcuts are active (and those shortcuts are dependent on the selection and resetted on each selection change : it's mostly a recreation of the existing shortcuts, like doIt, copy/paste, navigation, etc...). It takes as code : - A subclass of KMDispatcher with two methods (keymapObservers and dispatchKeystroke:). - The code to replace each necessary KMDispatcher by this subclass. - The code to reset and add shortcuts to those KMDispatchers. So, apart from a bit of incompatibility (ListModel shortcuts in Spec), for Spec it's really easy to push that once you review why I had to do that change to KMDispatcher. For the other parts (SmalltalkEditor), it's a matter of replacing some class configs by KMShortcuts. I believe someone with Nautilus knowledge would be nice : it is the heaviest user of shortcuts, and I really don't use shortcuts in the same way. A merge of both is probably necessary. For example, I have this method, called each time the selection changes : updateTextKeymap "Update the text keymap. Change the key dispatcher if needed. Change all dispatchers to force and really force default shortcuts not to be used." | keyMorph | keyMorph := self targetShortcutMorph. (textModel widget kmDispatcher isKindOf: AltKMDispatcher) ifFalse: [ textModel widget setProperty: #kmDispatcher toValue: (AltKMDispatcher target: textModel widget) ]. (keyMorph kmDispatcher isKindOf: AltKMDispatcher) ifFalse: [ keyMorph setProperty: #kmDispatcher toValue: (AltKMDispatcher target: keyMorph) ] ifTrue: [ keyMorph kmDispatcher reset ]. self selectedItem notNil ifTrue: [ self selectedItem item buildTextShortcutsOn: keyMorph with: self ] And, in the select object side : buildTextShortcutsOn: aKMDispatcher with: aRequestor "This is an attempt at handling shortcuts... Which works, with the help of a custom KMDispatcher." (Pragma allNamed: #textAreaCommand from: self class to: ABAbstractNode) do: [ :e | (self perform: e selector) do: [ :c | | command | command := c on: aRequestor textModel for: aRequestor. command buildShortcut: aKMDispatcher ] ] And then the shortcut itself in the Command object. buildShortcut: aKMDispatcher "Add a shortcut to the keymap. Conditions : must have a keystroke, must wantsKeyboard and must be active." (self keystroke isNil or: [ self wantsKeyboard not or: [ self isActive not ] ]) ifTrue: [ ^ self ]. aKMDispatcher on: self keystroke do: [ self execute ] As you see, the use of KMDispatcher is dynamic and very simple, so I need your comments on how that would fit with Nautilus and the global keymaps, that I have disconnected in my case because they interfere in two ways : KMDispatch randomly chooses which will apply, and that disallows instance based overriding of shortcuts, and I don't want to have to mask all pre-existing shortcuts to avoid pass-through effect (a shortcut get applied because a global map has it and me, for my application, I don't want that to happen). Thierry ________________________________ De : pharo-project-bounces@lists.gforge.inria.fr [pharo-project-bounces@lists.gforge.inria.fr] de la part de Benjamin [benjamin.vanryseghem.pharo@gmail.com] Date d'envoi : mardi 11 septembre 2012 19:59 à : Pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr Objet : Re: [Pharo-project] Keymapping KMShortcut combining On Sep 11, 2012, at 7:52 PM, Guillermo Polito wrote: On Sep 11, 2012, at 2:58 PM, Goubier Thierry wrote:
Hi,
Is it possible in Keymapping to have an alternative as shortcut ?
I would like to map Tab/Shift Tab and Ctrl Tab/Shift Ctrl Tab to get next/previous focus to work with Spec, and I would like to be able to return a keystroke as Character tab | Character tab ctrl.
Yes, keymapping allows combinations as ctrl tab, ctrl shift tab, and also sequences (cmd a followed by cmd shift c).
For those interested, I'm trying to look at http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=6657 and: http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=6656
I have solutions for both : code that does 6657, and a way to disable all legacy shortcuts for 6656 for Spec applications on a per instance basis, without overriding or removing any existing code.
you mean disabling only in spec? The idea is to move all shortcuts to keymappings but I'm out of time right now :(. +1 :) Sadly, I am out of time too :s Ben
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On 2012-09-11, at 22:21, GOUBIER Thierry <thierry.goubier@cea.fr> wrote:
I've seen the combination and modifiers for Keymapper already; what I would like is the alternative :
Either Character tab or Character tab ctrl
(because I've linked tab to nextFocus in a TreeModel, and ctrl + tab in a TextModel (since tab can't be used)) Ok, not much of a gain anyway, so no need to add this to Keymapper.
I though once about this as well, so you can do something like $a cmd | $a cmd shift
Ben, Guillermo and Stéphane, in AltBrowser, all hard-coded shortcuts are desactivated and only the AltBrowser defined shortcuts are active (and those shortcuts are dependent on the selection and resetted on each selection change : it's mostly a recreation of the existing shortcuts, like doIt, copy/paste, navigation, etc...). It takes as code :
- A subclass of KMDispatcher with two methods (keymapObservers and dispatchKeystroke:). - The code to replace each necessary KMDispatcher by this subclass. - The code to reset and add shortcuts to those KMDispatchers.
As far as I remember I once had my own image which used KM shortcuts for all the default shortcuts with proper Settings entries (maybe I find the image somewhere so I can share the settings code (cause it's really only copy pasting...)
So, apart from a bit of incompatibility (ListModel shortcuts in Spec), for Spec it's really easy to push that once you review why I had to do that change to KMDispatcher. For the other parts (SmalltalkEditor), it's a matter of replacing some class configs by KMShortcuts. I believe someone with Nautilus knowledge would be nice : it is the heaviest user of shortcuts, and I really don't use shortcuts in the same way. A merge of both is probably necessary.
For example, I have this method, called each time the selection changes :
updateTextKeymap "Update the text keymap. Change the key dispatcher if needed. Change all dispatchers to force and really force default shortcuts not to be used."
| keyMorph | keyMorph := self targetShortcutMorph. (textModel widget kmDispatcher isKindOf: AltKMDispatcher) ifFalse: [ textModel widget setProperty: #kmDispatcher toValue: (AltKMDispatcher target: textModel widget) ]. (keyMorph kmDispatcher isKindOf: AltKMDispatcher) ifFalse: [ keyMorph setProperty: #kmDispatcher toValue: (AltKMDispatcher target: keyMorph) ] ifTrue: [ keyMorph kmDispatcher reset ]. self selectedItem notNil ifTrue: [ self selectedItem item buildTextShortcutsOn: keyMorph with: self ]
And, in the select object side :
buildTextShortcutsOn: aKMDispatcher with: aRequestor "This is an attempt at handling shortcuts... Which works, with the help of a custom KMDispatcher."
(Pragma allNamed: #textAreaCommand from: self class to: ABAbstractNode) do: [ :e | (self perform: e selector) do: [ :c | | command | command := c on: aRequestor textModel for: aRequestor. command buildShortcut: aKMDispatcher ] ]
And then the shortcut itself in the Command object.
buildShortcut: aKMDispatcher "Add a shortcut to the keymap. Conditions : must have a keystroke, must wantsKeyboard and must be active."
(self keystroke isNil or: [ self wantsKeyboard not or: [ self isActive not ] ]) ifTrue: [ ^ self ]. aKMDispatcher on: self keystroke do: [ self execute ]
As you see, the use of KMDispatcher is dynamic and very simple, so I need your comments on how that would fit with Nautilus and the global keymaps, that I have disconnected in my case because they interfere in two ways : KMDispatch randomly chooses which will apply, and that disallows instance based overriding of shortcuts, and I don't want to have to mask all pre-existing shortcuts to avoid pass-through effect (a shortcut get applied because a global map has it and me, for my application, I don't want that to happen).
given that I am a total ignorant :P, can you explain again in different words why you need the "ugly" code above? If you remove all the hardcoded shortcuts, is your dynamic KMDispatcher switch still necessary? I still remember a vague discussion with Guillermo about how to handle local overrides of keyboard shortcuts, wish I had made a picture of that draft back then :P But I think we need a bit more general solution for that problem (of course if yours works right now, we should definitely go for it now!)
Yes, I was thinking of the $a cmd | $a cmd shift thing. Oh, the ugly code (the one that changes the KMDispatcher, right ?). It's patching the relevant Morphs. The solution you use when you want to hack Morphic without recoding it :( Anything better than that would do, a Spec or Morphic API for the application to be able to reset/recode shortcuts when needed :) a nice when: #keymapChange do: aBlock. Some of the work is to switch to hardcoded Keymappings... and to allow dynamic, instance-based control as well. What I tried is to remove all hardcoded shortcuts, and it works. I then merged my menus and shortcuts, and made sure my application could control which shortcuts were active. But, in the process, I desactivated for my instances the global Keymaps, the one Nautilus uses for its shortcuts. Thierry ________________________________________ De : pharo-project-bounces@lists.gforge.inria.fr [pharo-project-bounces@lists.gforge.inria.fr] de la part de Camillo Bruni [camillobruni@gmail.com] Date d'envoi : mardi 11 septembre 2012 22:48 Ã : Pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr Objet : Re: [Pharo-project] RE : Keymapping KMShortcut combining On 2012-09-11, at 22:21, GOUBIER Thierry <thierry.goubier@cea.fr> wrote:
I've seen the combination and modifiers for Keymapper already; what I would like is the alternative :
Either Character tab or Character tab ctrl
(because I've linked tab to nextFocus in a TreeModel, and ctrl + tab in a TextModel (since tab can't be used)) Ok, not much of a gain anyway, so no need to add this to Keymapper.
I though once about this as well, so you can do something like $a cmd | $a cmd shift
Ben, Guillermo and Stéphane, in AltBrowser, all hard-coded shortcuts are desactivated and only the AltBrowser defined shortcuts are active (and those shortcuts are dependent on the selection and resetted on each selection change : it's mostly a recreation of the existing shortcuts, like doIt, copy/paste, navigation, etc...). It takes as code :
- A subclass of KMDispatcher with two methods (keymapObservers and dispatchKeystroke:). - The code to replace each necessary KMDispatcher by this subclass. - The code to reset and add shortcuts to those KMDispatchers.
As far as I remember I once had my own image which used KM shortcuts for all the default shortcuts with proper Settings entries (maybe I find the image somewhere so I can share the settings code (cause it's really only copy pasting...)
So, apart from a bit of incompatibility (ListModel shortcuts in Spec), for Spec it's really easy to push that once you review why I had to do that change to KMDispatcher. For the other parts (SmalltalkEditor), it's a matter of replacing some class configs by KMShortcuts. I believe someone with Nautilus knowledge would be nice : it is the heaviest user of shortcuts, and I really don't use shortcuts in the same way. A merge of both is probably necessary.
For example, I have this method, called each time the selection changes :
updateTextKeymap "Update the text keymap. Change the key dispatcher if needed. Change all dispatchers to force and really force default shortcuts not to be used."
| keyMorph | keyMorph := self targetShortcutMorph. (textModel widget kmDispatcher isKindOf: AltKMDispatcher) ifFalse: [ textModel widget setProperty: #kmDispatcher toValue: (AltKMDispatcher target: textModel widget) ]. (keyMorph kmDispatcher isKindOf: AltKMDispatcher) ifFalse: [ keyMorph setProperty: #kmDispatcher toValue: (AltKMDispatcher target: keyMorph) ] ifTrue: [ keyMorph kmDispatcher reset ]. self selectedItem notNil ifTrue: [ self selectedItem item buildTextShortcutsOn: keyMorph with: self ]
And, in the select object side :
buildTextShortcutsOn: aKMDispatcher with: aRequestor "This is an attempt at handling shortcuts... Which works, with the help of a custom KMDispatcher."
(Pragma allNamed: #textAreaCommand from: self class to: ABAbstractNode) do: [ :e | (self perform: e selector) do: [ :c | | command | command := c on: aRequestor textModel for: aRequestor. command buildShortcut: aKMDispatcher ] ]
And then the shortcut itself in the Command object.
buildShortcut: aKMDispatcher "Add a shortcut to the keymap. Conditions : must have a keystroke, must wantsKeyboard and must be active."
(self keystroke isNil or: [ self wantsKeyboard not or: [ self isActive not ] ]) ifTrue: [ ^ self ]. aKMDispatcher on: self keystroke do: [ self execute ]
As you see, the use of KMDispatcher is dynamic and very simple, so I need your comments on how that would fit with Nautilus and the global keymaps, that I have disconnected in my case because they interfere in two ways : KMDispatch randomly chooses which will apply, and that disallows instance based overriding of shortcuts, and I don't want to have to mask all pre-existing shortcuts to avoid pass-through effect (a shortcut get applied because a global map has it and me, for my application, I don't want that to happen).
given that I am a total ignorant :P, can you explain again in different words why you need the "ugly" code above? If you remove all the hardcoded shortcuts, is your dynamic KMDispatcher switch still necessary? I still remember a vague discussion with Guillermo about how to handle local overrides of keyboard shortcuts, wish I had made a picture of that draft back then :P But I think we need a bit more general solution for that problem (of course if yours works right now, we should definitely go for it now!)
if you have code that ease the replacement of hardcoded binding by key mapper, publish it so that we integrate it like that everybody will benefit from it. Stef
Yes, I was thinking of the $a cmd | $a cmd shift thing.
Oh, the ugly code (the one that changes the KMDispatcher, right ?). It's patching the relevant Morphs. The solution you use when you want to hack Morphic without recoding it :(
Anything better than that would do, a Spec or Morphic API for the application to be able to reset/recode shortcuts when needed :) a nice when: #keymapChange do: aBlock.
Some of the work is to switch to hardcoded Keymappings... and to allow dynamic, instance-based control as well.
What I tried is to remove all hardcoded shortcuts, and it works. I then merged my menus and shortcuts, and made sure my application could control which shortcuts were active. But, in the process, I desactivated for my instances the global Keymaps, the one Nautilus uses for its shortcuts.
Thierry
________________________________________ De : pharo-project-bounces@lists.gforge.inria.fr [pharo-project-bounces@lists.gforge.inria.fr] de la part de Camillo Bruni [camillobruni@gmail.com] Date d'envoi : mardi 11 septembre 2012 22:48 Ã : Pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr Objet : Re: [Pharo-project] RE : Keymapping KMShortcut combining
On 2012-09-11, at 22:21, GOUBIER Thierry <thierry.goubier@cea.fr> wrote:
I've seen the combination and modifiers for Keymapper already; what I would like is the alternative :
Either Character tab or Character tab ctrl
(because I've linked tab to nextFocus in a TreeModel, and ctrl + tab in a TextModel (since tab can't be used)) Ok, not much of a gain anyway, so no need to add this to Keymapper.
I though once about this as well, so you can do something like $a cmd | $a cmd shift
Ben, Guillermo and Stéphane, in AltBrowser, all hard-coded shortcuts are desactivated and only the AltBrowser defined shortcuts are active (and those shortcuts are dependent on the selection and resetted on each selection change : it's mostly a recreation of the existing shortcuts, like doIt, copy/paste, navigation, etc...). It takes as code :
- A subclass of KMDispatcher with two methods (keymapObservers and dispatchKeystroke:). - The code to replace each necessary KMDispatcher by this subclass. - The code to reset and add shortcuts to those KMDispatchers.
As far as I remember I once had my own image which used KM shortcuts for all the default shortcuts with proper Settings entries (maybe I find the image somewhere so I can share the settings code (cause it's really only copy pasting...)
So, apart from a bit of incompatibility (ListModel shortcuts in Spec), for Spec it's really easy to push that once you review why I had to do that change to KMDispatcher. For the other parts (SmalltalkEditor), it's a matter of replacing some class configs by KMShortcuts. I believe someone with Nautilus knowledge would be nice : it is the heaviest user of shortcuts, and I really don't use shortcuts in the same way. A merge of both is probably necessary.
For example, I have this method, called each time the selection changes :
updateTextKeymap "Update the text keymap. Change the key dispatcher if needed. Change all dispatchers to force and really force default shortcuts not to be used."
| keyMorph | keyMorph := self targetShortcutMorph. (textModel widget kmDispatcher isKindOf: AltKMDispatcher) ifFalse: [ textModel widget setProperty: #kmDispatcher toValue: (AltKMDispatcher target: textModel widget) ]. (keyMorph kmDispatcher isKindOf: AltKMDispatcher) ifFalse: [ keyMorph setProperty: #kmDispatcher toValue: (AltKMDispatcher target: keyMorph) ] ifTrue: [ keyMorph kmDispatcher reset ]. self selectedItem notNil ifTrue: [ self selectedItem item buildTextShortcutsOn: keyMorph with: self ]
And, in the select object side :
buildTextShortcutsOn: aKMDispatcher with: aRequestor "This is an attempt at handling shortcuts... Which works, with the help of a custom KMDispatcher."
(Pragma allNamed: #textAreaCommand from: self class to: ABAbstractNode) do: [ :e | (self perform: e selector) do: [ :c | | command | command := c on: aRequestor textModel for: aRequestor. command buildShortcut: aKMDispatcher ] ]
And then the shortcut itself in the Command object.
buildShortcut: aKMDispatcher "Add a shortcut to the keymap. Conditions : must have a keystroke, must wantsKeyboard and must be active."
(self keystroke isNil or: [ self wantsKeyboard not or: [ self isActive not ] ]) ifTrue: [ ^ self ]. aKMDispatcher on: self keystroke do: [ self execute ]
As you see, the use of KMDispatcher is dynamic and very simple, so I need your comments on how that would fit with Nautilus and the global keymaps, that I have disconnected in my case because they interfere in two ways : KMDispatch randomly chooses which will apply, and that disallows instance based overriding of shortcuts, and I don't want to have to mask all pre-existing shortcuts to avoid pass-through effect (a shortcut get applied because a global map has it and me, for my application, I don't want that to happen).
given that I am a total ignorant :P, can you explain again in different words why you need the "ugly" code above?
If you remove all the hardcoded shortcuts, is your dynamic KMDispatcher switch still necessary?
I still remember a vague discussion with Guillermo about how to handle local overrides of keyboard shortcuts, wish I had made a picture of that draft back then :P
But I think we need a bit more general solution for that problem (of course if yours works right now, we should definitely go for it now!)
Le 12/09/2012 07:33, Stéphane Ducasse a écrit :
if you have code that ease the replacement of hardcoded binding by key mapper, publish it so that we integrate it like that everybody will benefit from it.
Stef
Ok, I'll start to provide slices under 6656, and describe what I plan to do. Update KMDispatcher to: - Ensure a specific ordering of targets (local first, then the rest). The current keymapObservers has a bug: it returns a Set of targets. -- Why is KMDispatcher>>staticTargets deprecated ? This is where all the shortcuts for Nautilus are defined, as well as some shortcuts for SmalltalkEditor / Spotlight / TextEditor / TextMorph (looks like an attempt at replacing the Morphic shortcuts). -- Someone is using the perInstanceTarget ? It's a lot easier to use on:do: and the directKeymap. - Ensure that all ctrl and cmd shorcuts are processed by KMDispatch so that they are not given to the Morphic shortcut processing code. -- legacy tracking and testing needed for that, please ! Do you think it's better to keep the staticTargets or should legacy shortcuts be moved to on:do: below ? How often is the staticTargets thing built (Oh, every time a method with pragma <keymap> is compiled) ? - Add a directKeymapOnly flag to restrict dispatch to the directKeymap (for users of on:do:) Update Morphic - Any idea about how to setup a link between a model and any Morph to give access to the keymap ? It's easy once you know the target Morphs, but how to build this knowledge and avoid code like : targetShortcutMorph "Get the real, lowest level morph we need to touch the key dispatch for. What a mess!" ^ self textModel widget submorphs first submorphs first Update Spec. - Easy. Remove unneeded key processing code in Morphic (shouldn't be called anymore except for non-ctrl, non-cmd key events), and complete the shortcuts (navigation keys, special keys for specific Morphs, like <space> for MorphButton). Your opinion ? Anything I missed ? Thierry
Yes, I was thinking of the $a cmd | $a cmd shift thing.
Oh, the ugly code (the one that changes the KMDispatcher, right ?). It's patching the relevant Morphs. The solution you use when you want to hack Morphic without recoding it :(
Anything better than that would do, a Spec or Morphic API for the application to be able to reset/recode shortcuts when needed :) a nice when: #keymapChange do: aBlock.
Some of the work is to switch to hardcoded Keymappings... and to allow dynamic, instance-based control as well.
What I tried is to remove all hardcoded shortcuts, and it works. I then merged my menus and shortcuts, and made sure my application could control which shortcuts were active. But, in the process, I desactivated for my instances the global Keymaps, the one Nautilus uses for its shortcuts.
Thierry
________________________________________ De : pharo-project-bounces@lists.gforge.inria.fr [pharo-project-bounces@lists.gforge.inria.fr] de la part de Camillo Bruni [camillobruni@gmail.com] Date d'envoi : mardi 11 septembre 2012 22:48 Ã : Pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr Objet : Re: [Pharo-project] RE : Keymapping KMShortcut combining
On 2012-09-11, at 22:21, GOUBIER Thierry <thierry.goubier@cea.fr> wrote:
I've seen the combination and modifiers for Keymapper already; what I would like is the alternative :
Either Character tab or Character tab ctrl
(because I've linked tab to nextFocus in a TreeModel, and ctrl + tab in a TextModel (since tab can't be used)) Ok, not much of a gain anyway, so no need to add this to Keymapper.
I though once about this as well, so you can do something like $a cmd | $a cmd shift
Ben, Guillermo and Stéphane, in AltBrowser, all hard-coded shortcuts are desactivated and only the AltBrowser defined shortcuts are active (and those shortcuts are dependent on the selection and resetted on each selection change : it's mostly a recreation of the existing shortcuts, like doIt, copy/paste, navigation, etc...). It takes as code :
- A subclass of KMDispatcher with two methods (keymapObservers and dispatchKeystroke:). - The code to replace each necessary KMDispatcher by this subclass. - The code to reset and add shortcuts to those KMDispatchers.
As far as I remember I once had my own image which used KM shortcuts for all the default shortcuts with proper Settings entries (maybe I find the image somewhere so I can share the settings code (cause it's really only copy pasting...)
So, apart from a bit of incompatibility (ListModel shortcuts in Spec), for Spec it's really easy to push that once you review why I had to do that change to KMDispatcher. For the other parts (SmalltalkEditor), it's a matter of replacing some class configs by KMShortcuts. I believe someone with Nautilus knowledge would be nice : it is the heaviest user of shortcuts, and I really don't use shortcuts in the same way. A merge of both is probably necessary.
For example, I have this method, called each time the selection changes :
updateTextKeymap "Update the text keymap. Change the key dispatcher if needed. Change all dispatchers to force and really force default shortcuts not to be used."
| keyMorph | keyMorph := self targetShortcutMorph. (textModel widget kmDispatcher isKindOf: AltKMDispatcher) ifFalse: [ textModel widget setProperty: #kmDispatcher toValue: (AltKMDispatcher target: textModel widget) ]. (keyMorph kmDispatcher isKindOf: AltKMDispatcher) ifFalse: [ keyMorph setProperty: #kmDispatcher toValue: (AltKMDispatcher target: keyMorph) ] ifTrue: [ keyMorph kmDispatcher reset ]. self selectedItem notNil ifTrue: [ self selectedItem item buildTextShortcutsOn: keyMorph with: self ]
And, in the select object side :
buildTextShortcutsOn: aKMDispatcher with: aRequestor "This is an attempt at handling shortcuts... Which works, with the help of a custom KMDispatcher."
(Pragma allNamed: #textAreaCommand from: self class to: ABAbstractNode) do: [ :e | (self perform: e selector) do: [ :c | | command | command := c on: aRequestor textModel for: aRequestor. command buildShortcut: aKMDispatcher ] ]
And then the shortcut itself in the Command object.
buildShortcut: aKMDispatcher "Add a shortcut to the keymap. Conditions : must have a keystroke, must wantsKeyboard and must be active."
(self keystroke isNil or: [ self wantsKeyboard not or: [ self isActive not ] ]) ifTrue: [ ^ self ]. aKMDispatcher on: self keystroke do: [ self execute ]
As you see, the use of KMDispatcher is dynamic and very simple, so I need your comments on how that would fit with Nautilus and the global keymaps, that I have disconnected in my case because they interfere in two ways : KMDispatch randomly chooses which will apply, and that disallows instance based overriding of shortcuts, and I don't want to have to mask all pre-existing shortcuts to avoid pass-through effect (a shortcut get applied because a global map has it and me, for my application, I don't want that to happen).
given that I am a total ignorant :P, can you explain again in different words why you need the "ugly" code above?
If you remove all the hardcoded shortcuts, is your dynamic KMDispatcher switch still necessary?
I still remember a vague discussion with Guillermo about how to handle local overrides of keyboard shortcuts, wish I had made a picture of that draft back then :P
But I think we need a bit more general solution for that problem (of course if yours works right now, we should definitely go for it now!)
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Le 12/09/2012 07:33, Stéphane Ducasse a écrit :
if you have code that ease the replacement of hardcoded binding by key mapper, publish it so that we integrate it like that everybody will benefit from it.
Stef
Have a look at http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=6656; I'd like a review on how it's integrated in Spec. (Temporarily, Keymapping blocks all crtl and cmd shortcuts to reach Morphic, so we can see what is really necessary or not). What remains if you're Ok with the design is. - Making sure all shortcuts are in Keymapping - Removing all the relevant code from Spec(not much) and Morphic (a lot). For Spec, I'm tempted by removing the keyboard handler stuff and ask people to use Keymapping shortcuts instead; not sure if anybody is using that anyway ? Thierry
Yes, I was thinking of the $a cmd | $a cmd shift thing.
Oh, the ugly code (the one that changes the KMDispatcher, right ?). It's patching the relevant Morphs. The solution you use when you want to hack Morphic without recoding it :(
Anything better than that would do, a Spec or Morphic API for the application to be able to reset/recode shortcuts when needed :) a nice when: #keymapChange do: aBlock.
Some of the work is to switch to hardcoded Keymappings... and to allow dynamic, instance-based control as well.
What I tried is to remove all hardcoded shortcuts, and it works. I then merged my menus and shortcuts, and made sure my application could control which shortcuts were active. But, in the process, I desactivated for my instances the global Keymaps, the one Nautilus uses for its shortcuts.
Thierry
________________________________________ De : pharo-project-bounces@lists.gforge.inria.fr [pharo-project-bounces@lists.gforge.inria.fr] de la part de Camillo Bruni [camillobruni@gmail.com] Date d'envoi : mardi 11 septembre 2012 22:48 Ã : Pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr Objet : Re: [Pharo-project] RE : Keymapping KMShortcut combining
On 2012-09-11, at 22:21, GOUBIER Thierry <thierry.goubier@cea.fr> wrote:
I've seen the combination and modifiers for Keymapper already; what I would like is the alternative :
Either Character tab or Character tab ctrl
(because I've linked tab to nextFocus in a TreeModel, and ctrl + tab in a TextModel (since tab can't be used)) Ok, not much of a gain anyway, so no need to add this to Keymapper.
I though once about this as well, so you can do something like $a cmd | $a cmd shift
Ben, Guillermo and Stéphane, in AltBrowser, all hard-coded shortcuts are desactivated and only the AltBrowser defined shortcuts are active (and those shortcuts are dependent on the selection and resetted on each selection change : it's mostly a recreation of the existing shortcuts, like doIt, copy/paste, navigation, etc...). It takes as code :
- A subclass of KMDispatcher with two methods (keymapObservers and dispatchKeystroke:). - The code to replace each necessary KMDispatcher by this subclass. - The code to reset and add shortcuts to those KMDispatchers.
As far as I remember I once had my own image which used KM shortcuts for all the default shortcuts with proper Settings entries (maybe I find the image somewhere so I can share the settings code (cause it's really only copy pasting...)
So, apart from a bit of incompatibility (ListModel shortcuts in Spec), for Spec it's really easy to push that once you review why I had to do that change to KMDispatcher. For the other parts (SmalltalkEditor), it's a matter of replacing some class configs by KMShortcuts. I believe someone with Nautilus knowledge would be nice : it is the heaviest user of shortcuts, and I really don't use shortcuts in the same way. A merge of both is probably necessary.
For example, I have this method, called each time the selection changes :
updateTextKeymap "Update the text keymap. Change the key dispatcher if needed. Change all dispatchers to force and really force default shortcuts not to be used."
| keyMorph | keyMorph := self targetShortcutMorph. (textModel widget kmDispatcher isKindOf: AltKMDispatcher) ifFalse: [ textModel widget setProperty: #kmDispatcher toValue: (AltKMDispatcher target: textModel widget) ]. (keyMorph kmDispatcher isKindOf: AltKMDispatcher) ifFalse: [ keyMorph setProperty: #kmDispatcher toValue: (AltKMDispatcher target: keyMorph) ] ifTrue: [ keyMorph kmDispatcher reset ]. self selectedItem notNil ifTrue: [ self selectedItem item buildTextShortcutsOn: keyMorph with: self ]
And, in the select object side :
buildTextShortcutsOn: aKMDispatcher with: aRequestor "This is an attempt at handling shortcuts... Which works, with the help of a custom KMDispatcher."
(Pragma allNamed: #textAreaCommand from: self class to: ABAbstractNode) do: [ :e | (self perform: e selector) do: [ :c | | command | command := c on: aRequestor textModel for: aRequestor. command buildShortcut: aKMDispatcher ] ]
And then the shortcut itself in the Command object.
buildShortcut: aKMDispatcher "Add a shortcut to the keymap. Conditions : must have a keystroke, must wantsKeyboard and must be active."
(self keystroke isNil or: [ self wantsKeyboard not or: [ self isActive not ] ]) ifTrue: [ ^ self ]. aKMDispatcher on: self keystroke do: [ self execute ]
As you see, the use of KMDispatcher is dynamic and very simple, so I need your comments on how that would fit with Nautilus and the global keymaps, that I have disconnected in my case because they interfere in two ways : KMDispatch randomly chooses which will apply, and that disallows instance based overriding of shortcuts, and I don't want to have to mask all pre-existing shortcuts to avoid pass-through effect (a shortcut get applied because a global map has it and me, for my application, I don't want that to happen).
given that I am a total ignorant :P, can you explain again in different words why you need the "ugly" code above?
If you remove all the hardcoded shortcuts, is your dynamic KMDispatcher switch still necessary?
I still remember a vague discussion with Guillermo about how to handle local overrides of keyboard shortcuts, wish I had made a picture of that draft back then :P
But I think we need a bit more general solution for that problem (of course if yours works right now, we should definitely go for it now!)
-- Thierry Goubier CEA list Laboratoire des Fondations des Systèmes Temps Réel Embarqués 91191 Gif sur Yvette Cedex France Phone/Fax: +33 (0) 1 69 08 32 92 / 83 95
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