Re: Menu Accelerators - help!

2010-09-06 Thread RunRevPlanet
Sivakatirswami, If a keyboard shortcut in your stack duplicates a shortcut in the IDE, provided your application stack is top most (focused), the shortcut should still work even when working from the IDE. The "Tip of the Week" at RunRevPlanet has recently been looking at making menus, and th

Re: Menu Accelerators - help!

2010-09-05 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 9/5/10 10:59 PM, Web Admin Himalayan Academy wrote: Find/F Find Again/G does not work , repeat... no go.. in fact I tried this first and when it did not work, (with suspend development tools on) that's when I tried using the additional "^" char Odd, I've been using that forever. I wond

Re: Menu Accelerators - help!

2010-09-05 Thread Web Admin Himalayan Academy
Yes, did that still after IDE is suspended, the accelerator keys don't work. This has plagued me for years... On 9/5/10 4:35 PM, stephen barncard wrote: Swami, can't you just "Suspend Developer Tools" in the Developer menu? On 5 September 2010 19:29, Sivakatirswami wrote: For some

Re: Menu Accelerators - help!

2010-09-05 Thread Web Admin Himalayan Academy
On 9/5/10 4:48 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: All you should need is the slash and letter, like this: Find/F Find Again/G These should work whenever your stack menu is the system menu, (i.e., you stack menu has focus, it's in a standalone, or you suspend development tools.) The IDE catches the ke

Re: Menu Accelerators - help!

2010-09-05 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 9/5/10 9:29 PM, Sivakatirswami wrote: A very common requirement is Find and Find Again. This looks correct to me: Find/^ F Find Again/^G The menu shows the cmd symbol (os x) and the letter, but cmd-f does nothing but invoke the IDE's find dialog; if I turn of development tools, it still doe

Re: Menu Accelerators - help!

2010-09-05 Thread stephen barncard
Swami, can't you just "Suspend Developer Tools" in the Developer menu? On 5 September 2010 19:29, Sivakatirswami wrote: > For some reason, I've never been able to get menu accelerator keys to work > as expected. > > the dictionary entry on this makes sense, but could use some examples. > Seems

Menu Accelerators - help!

2010-09-05 Thread Sivakatirswami
For some reason, I've never been able to get menu accelerator keys to work as expected. the dictionary entry on this makes sense, but could use some examples. Seems straight forward enough... The syntax for menu item strings is: [] ['/' ['|' ]] where would be, in my case: A very c