Am Sep 13, 2009 um 11:19 AM schrieb ext Shawn Rutledge: > I'm mostly enjoying Creator. But here's a couple things that drive > me bonkers: > > On MacOS, by default there an incompatible/unexpected mapping for > home/end keys, across the OS. It can be fixed for some (most?) apps > like this: > > http://phatness.com/node/1661
Ah, how I like this kind of ranting ;) Actually it's equally annoying to move to e.g. a Windows machine if you are used to work on a Mac. I speak from experience, though it usually takes me only a few minutes now to adapt to the OS (since I switch quite frequently). > but, Creator is somehow not seeing the effects of that change in > system-wide settings. I don't know enough about MacOS yet to know > where that mapping ought to take place, though. "moveToEndOfLine" > sounds like a higher-level event to me; but if Qt apps can only handle > actual keys, how can it be fixed? Qt has the concept of "StandardKeys" (http://qt.nokia.com/doc/4.5/qkeysequence.html#StandardKey-enum) exactly for that reason. These are obviously hardcoded, though. (look for QKeySequencePrivate::keyBindings[] in http://qt.gitorious.org/qt/qt/blobs/master/src/gui/kernel/qkeysequence.cpp if you are interested :) ) So, this part is definitely a deficiency in Qt. On the other hand, as I said, it's similarly annoying if you come to a windows machine from a Mac (and I didn't find a hack to change the home/end key behaviors on windows at all), so I'd say it's also a definciency in Qt Creator that you can't change the basic editing shortcuts. ++ Eike > Anyway it's completely wrecking my > muscle memory whenever I use it on MacOS (now I have to be "afraid" of > the end key in this one context). At least these keys (all key > mappings, preferably) should be included in the key mappings in > preferences so I can fix it separately. > > > Next, the folding feature in the left margin is great, but often it > interferes with my attempts to select entire lines of code (e.g. for > drag-and-drop purposes) due to accidentally collapsing the whole > block, which is quite distracting. I'm not accustomed to the fold > "button" being so much larger than the icon (the arrow or plus/minus > sign). I see that it's possible to select lines from the line-numbers > area, but I guess it seems too detached, so I find myself trying to > straddle the little space between the fold margin and the actual text. > Maybe the fold column should be to the left of the line numbers? Or > the fold buttons could be smaller (just the icons themselves), but I > guess someone who folds a lot would like them large. But most of all, > the cursor should change to a right-pointing one, like MS Word does, > when you are in any area of the margin in which it is possible to > select whole lines. Then at least you get feedback before the click. > > But, finally I realized I can turn off the fold feature for now. :-) > > > So when I need to reorder lines of code, it's been a pain for both of > these reasons. I'd prefer to do it on the keyboard, but home doesn't > take me to the beginning of the line, shift-end doesn't highlight the > line, and there is no shortcut I know for "select the whole line". > > SciTE has a key (control-D) to duplicate the current line (or the > selected block if you pre-selected something) as well, which is > occasionally useful. I found myself missing it once or twice, because > again the alternative is to select the whole line (hard without > working home/end keys), copy and paste. (Also control-D is a common > enough mapping in drawing programs to duplicate the selected shape, so > could potentially be a quasi-standard across most applications.) > _______________________________________________ > Qt-creator mailing list > Qt-creator@trolltech.com > http://lists.trolltech.com/mailman/listinfo/qt-creator -- Eike Ziller Software Engineer Nokia, Qt Development Frameworks Phone +49 (0)30 6392 3255 Fax +49 (0)30 6392 3256 E-mail eike.zil...@nokia.com _______________________________________________ Qt-creator mailing list Qt-creator@trolltech.com http://lists.trolltech.com/mailman/listinfo/qt-creator
