Hi Edward
Thanks for the reply. I've raised a wishlist bug (hope I've done that
right)
I'll take a look at the code area you mention myself as I'm interested in
learning more about the action...
Regards
Jon N
On Thursday, 1 August 2013 16:04:48 UTC+1, Edward K. Ream wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 8:05 AM, jkn <[email protected] <javascript:>
> > wrote:
>
>> (apologies in advance: I have only done minor searching before asking.
>> This may be a Qt, rqather than a Leo, question... )
>>
>
> It's both.
>
>
>>
>> I am starting to look into creating my own set of Key bindings for Leo.
>> Is there a way to specify that, on a 'standard' PC keyboard, a particular
>> key on the numeric keypad has been pressed?
>>
>
> Not yet. It should be possible, but it won't be easy because it two very
> messy parts of Leo:
>
> 1. Translation of key codes to "canonical" key representation. This is
> done in the eventFilter method of the leoQtEventFilter class. This code is
> not only unbearably ugly, but it may also be keyboard specific.
>
> 2. Translation of user settings to canonical key representation. This is
> done in the keyHandlerClass class in leoKeys.py, specifically the nest of
> methods at:
>
> leoPy.leo#Code-->Gui base classes-->@file leoKeys.py-->
> class keyHandlerClass-->k.Shortcuts & bindings
>
> For instance, I want to use 'Keypad-Insert', 'Keypad-minus', 'Keypad-plus'
>> to have specific keybindings cf. 'Insert', 'minus', 'plus'. I'd like to
>> know if this is possible and if so what the actual names to use would be.
>>
>
> This would be a reasonable addition to Leo. Feel free to file a wishlist
> bug at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/leo-editor
>
> A quick check of the Qt QKeyEvent class shows that key events have a
> KeypadModifier
> bit in the KeyboardModifier field, so it should be possible to
> distinguish keypad keys. It's just that Leo doesn't do it. And as
> indicated above, the change is not entirely trivial ;-)
>
> Edward
>
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