[api-dev] Re: Toolbar items: how to get them to show the shortcut letter underlined ?
On 25.05.2011 08:35, Mathias Bauer wrote: On 24.05.2011 22:31, Rony G. Flatscher wrote: Hi there, in the meantime I have been able to add shortcuts to the toolbar items and they are operational. However, the shortcut letter is not underlined, although using the tilde (~) before the letter to be underlined in the Label property of the toolbar item. Is there a different property that I would need to use for having OOo underline the shortcut-key? (Again it works, using SHIFT+ALT+letter, where ALT is the META2 KeyModifier.) TIA, ---rony What do you mean by again it works, using SHIFT+ALT+LETTER ? Just that the defined shortcut-keys are operational. E.g. the shortcut for the ~Import toolbar item gets defined as SHIFT+META2+I and if you press SHIFT+ALT+I (META2 is ALT on my Windows keyboard) the toolbar item gets executed. It is just the case that the I does not get underlined in the toolbar item (a button where the text and the assigned icon get displayed). For usability it would be desirable to underline the shortcut letter in the toolbar text. ---rony -- - To unsubscribe send email to dev-unsubscr...@api.openoffice.org For additional commands send email to sy...@api.openoffice.org with Subject: help
[api-dev] Re: Toolbar items: how to get them to show the shortcut letter underlined ?
Fernand, On 25.05.2011 09:15, Fernand Vanrie wrote: When making mi extentions i found (by accident if forgot to use ~) the system (at least for menubar items) automaticly gives a underlined letter thank you for that hint. Unfortunately, this does not work either. ---rony -- - To unsubscribe send email to dev-unsubscr...@api.openoffice.org For additional commands send email to sy...@api.openoffice.org with Subject: help
[api-dev] Re: Toolbar items: how to get them to show the shortcut letter underlined ?
On 25.05.2011 10:34, Rony G. Flatscher wrote: On 25.05.2011 08:35, Mathias Bauer wrote: On 24.05.2011 22:31, Rony G. Flatscher wrote: Hi there, in the meantime I have been able to add shortcuts to the toolbar items and they are operational. However, the shortcut letter is not underlined, although using the tilde (~) before the letter to be underlined in the Label property of the toolbar item. Is there a different property that I would need to use for having OOo underline the shortcut-key? (Again it works, using SHIFT+ALT+letter, where ALT is the META2 KeyModifier.) TIA, ---rony What do you mean by again it works, using SHIFT+ALT+LETTER ? Just that the defined shortcut-keys are operational. E.g. the shortcut for the ~Import toolbar item gets defined as SHIFT+META2+I and if you press SHIFT+ALT+I (META2 is ALT on my Windows keyboard) the toolbar item gets executed. It is just the case that the I does not get underlined in the toolbar item (a button where the text and the assigned icon get displayed). Sorry for being dense ;-), where did you define the shortcut? If a shortcut is defined in a menu, it will executed only if the menu has the focus. I don't think that this works in toolbars. If I just ad a tilde to a toolbar item label, I don't see a way to execute this label as a command like in a menu. Are you sure that you don't talk about accelerators (those who are assigned to commands using tools-customize-keyboard)? Regards, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Oracle: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Please don't reply to nospamfor...@gmx.de. I use it for the OOo lists and only rarely read other mails sent to it. -- - To unsubscribe send email to dev-unsubscr...@api.openoffice.org For additional commands send email to sy...@api.openoffice.org with Subject: help
[api-dev] Re: Toolbar items: how to get them to show the shortcut letter underlined ?
On 25.05.2011 11:22, Mathias Bauer wrote: On 25.05.2011 10:34, Rony G. Flatscher wrote: On 25.05.2011 08:35, Mathias Bauer wrote: On 24.05.2011 22:31, Rony G. Flatscher wrote: Hi there, in the meantime I have been able to add shortcuts to the toolbar items and they are operational. However, the shortcut letter is not underlined, although using the tilde (~) before the letter to be underlined in the Label property of the toolbar item. Is there a different property that I would need to use for having OOo underline the shortcut-key? (Again it works, using SHIFT+ALT+letter, where ALT is the META2 KeyModifier.) TIA, ---rony What do you mean by again it works, using SHIFT+ALT+LETTER ? Just that the defined shortcut-keys are operational. E.g. the shortcut for the ~Import toolbar item gets defined as SHIFT+META2+I and if you press SHIFT+ALT+I (META2 is ALT on my Windows keyboard) the toolbar item gets executed. It is just the case that the I does not get underlined in the toolbar item (a button where the text and the assigned icon get displayed). Sorry for being dense ;-), That's o.k., as I have no idea what the relevant information is when reporting this observation. So dense questions hopefully help clarify. where did you define the shortcut? If a shortcut is defined in a menu, it will executed only if the menu has the focus. I don't think that this works in toolbars. If I just ad a tilde to a toolbar item label, I don't see a way to execute this label as a command like in a menu. Are you sure that you don't talk about accelerators (those who are assigned to commands using tools-customize-keyboard)? O.K., I think the best is that I show you the code snippets then. The code is in ooRexx but excersises the Java API behind the curtain. The tilde in ooRexx is the message operator, so left of the tilde is the receiving object, right of it the message. In case a queryInterface() is needed, the ooRexx UNO support allows one to merely send the unqualified interface name to the UNO object in order to retrieve that interface. Line comments start with two consecutive dashes (--), block comments are C-like (but can be nested in the Rexx language). Having said that, here's the snippet, which should give you the exact information, please look for the area after the comments lead in as /* *** shortcut *** */: ::routine BNF_toolbar -- rgf, 2011-05-21: create toolbar for writer module use arg xContext, install=.true, location=user -- location: Rexx scripts location -- define where to store the toolbar ToolbarURL = private:resource/toolbar/custom_bnf4oootoolbar -- get the user interface configuration x_MultiServiceFactory = xContext~getServiceManager~XMultiServiceFactory configsupplier = com.sun.star.ui.ModuleUIConfigurationManagerSupplier x_Supplier = x_MultiServiceFactory~createInstance(configsupplier)~XModuleUIConfigurationManagerSupplier -- the document type this toolbar is bound to DocumentType = com.sun.star.text.TextDocument -- get the user interface configuration of writer x_UIConfigurationManager = x_Supplier~getUIConfigurationManager(DocumentType) -- define macros and sequence for toolbar arrMacro =.array ~of(OOoBNF2Diagram.rex, OOoBNF2All.rex, - OOoBNF2XML.rex, OOoXML2BNF.rex, - OOoImport.rex , OOoExport.rex , - OptionGUI.rex , addBNF4OOoStyles.rex , - installBNF4OOo.rex) /* *** shortcut *** */ -- in toolbars the label text does not underline the shortcut char indicated with the tilde '~' arrMacroLabel=.array ~of(BNF2~Diagram , BNF2~All , - BNF2~XML , XML2~BNF , - ~Import, ~Export, - ~Options , Add BNF4OOo ~Styles ,- ~Uninstall BNF4OOo ) /* *** shortcut *** */ -- define shortcut key for macros arrShortCuts=.array ~of(D, A, X, B, I, E, O, S, U) --- -- build macro urls arrMacroURL=.array~new do i=1 to arrMacro~items -- a.k.a. commandURLs arrMacroURL[i]=vnd.sun.star.script:BNF4OOo.arrMacro[i]?language=ooRexxlocation=location end -- define built-in icons to be used for our toolbar items arrBuiltinIcons=.array~of(.uno:Imagebutton, .uno:ArrowShapes.striped-right-arrow, - .uno:ArrowShapes.right-arrow, .uno:ArrowShapes.left-arrow, - .uno:ImportDialog , .uno:ExportTo, - -- .uno:ExportDialog, - .uno:FormDesignTools, .uno:StyleApply, - .uno:Delete) -- build image name
[api-dev] Re: Toolbar items: how to get them to show the shortcut letter underlined ?
On 25.05.2011 12:06, Rony G. Flatscher wrote: Are you sure that you don't talk about accelerators (those who are assigned to commands using tools-customize-keyboard)? O.K., I think the best is that I show you the code snippets then. The code is in ooRexx but excersises the Java API behind the curtain. The tilde in ooRexx is the message operator, so left of the tilde is the receiving object, right of it the message. In case a queryInterface() is needed, the ooRexx UNO support allows one to merely send the unqualified interface name to the UNO object in order to retrieve that interface. Line comments start with two consecutive dashes (--), block comments are C-like (but can be nested in the Rexx language). Having said that, here's the snippet, which should give you the exact information, please look for the area after the comments lead in as /* (snip) /* *** shortcut *** */ -- got shortcut manager, define key with Shift+Alt combination oShortCutManager=x_UIConfigurationManager~getShortcutManager xShortCutManager=oShortCutManager~XAcceleratorConfiguration modifiers =bsf.getConstant(com.sun.star.awt.KeyModifier, SHIFT) -- Shift-key modifiers+=bsf.getConstant(com.sun.star.awt.KeyModifier, MOD2) -- Alt-key KeyEventClz=bsf.importClass(com.sun.star.awt.KeyEvent) Exactly, these are accelerators, not shortcuts. This is not about the words (others might even use them the other way around), but about the way they are executed. In OOo accelerators work independently from any other UI elements, e.g. menu or toolbar items. In the default configuration CTRL-O will always execute the command .uno:Open, even if no toolbars or menus are present. OTOH, the *menu shortcut* (specified by putting a tilde in front of the letter O in a corresponding menu item label) for this function ALT-F, O (in the English version) can only be used by operating the menu with the keyboard. A comparable functionality does not exist for toolbar items. Thus, a tilde in a toolbar item label does not have any effect and is just considered as garbage. OTOH, toolbar quickhelp texts can show *accelerators* that are configured for the same functionality, in the same way as the menus do. (We don't do that in the item text as in menus as space in toolbars is more limited.) The quickhelp for the Open button shows Open (CTRL+O) because CTRL+O is the accelerator for the .uno:Open command (in the default configuration that may be changed via tools-customize-keyboard). And the menu item for Open also shows CTRL+O. There is some code in OOo's framework that adds the accelerators to the label or quickhelpt text. In menus this code works immediately as menus are always created at the very moment they are opened. Toolbar quickhelp texts need an update notification when the shortcut was changed. As it seems, this update notification is not sent. But the quickhelp text of a new document would be correct as the accelerator is already known when the toolbar is created. As an example, I configured SHIFT-ALT-G for Insert-Gallery in the keyboard configuration. The view menu (don't ask me why the menu has it in view, the config in insert ;-)) immediately shows the new accelerator, the toolbar quickhelp doesn't. If I now open a new document, its toolbar shows the accelerator in the quickhelp text of the Gallery button. Regards, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Oracle: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Please don't reply to nospamfor...@gmx.de. I use it for the OOo lists and only rarely read other mails sent to it. -- - To unsubscribe send email to dev-unsubscr...@api.openoffice.org For additional commands send email to sy...@api.openoffice.org with Subject: help
[api-dev] Re: Toolbar items: how to get them to show the shortcut letter underlined ?
Mathias, thank you very much for your explanations!A comparable functionality does not exist for toolbar items. ... cut ... OTOH, toolbar quickhelp texts can show *accelerators* that are configured for the same functionality, in the same way as the menus do. (We don't do that in the item text as in menus as space in toolbars is more limited.) The quickhelp for the Open button shows Open (CTRL+O) because CTRL+O is the accelerator for the .uno:Open command (in the default configuration that may be changed via tools-customize-keyboard). And the menu item for Open also shows CTRL+O. There is some code in OOo's framework that adds the accelerators to the label or quickhelpt text. In menus this code works immediately as menus are always created at the very moment they are opened. Toolbar quickhelp texts need an update notification when the shortcut was changed. As it seems, this update notification is not sent. But the quickhelp text of a new document would be correct as the accelerator is already known when the toolbar is created. How can I define a quickhelp text for each toolbar item? It seems that by default the label of the toolbar item is used as the quickhelp (tooltip?) text, and that does not exhibit the shortcut key by underlying it. As an example, I configured SHIFT-ALT-G for Insert-Gallery in the keyboard configuration. The view menu (don't ask me why the menu has it in view, the config in insert ;-)) immediately shows the new accelerator, the toolbar quickhelp doesn't. If I now open a new document, its toolbar shows the accelerator in the quickhelp text of the Gallery button. Just tried this via Tools-Customize, but it did not work with the toolbar item. ---rony P.S.: One observation: it is not possible to delete the programmatically created toolbar using Tools - Customize as the delete option is greyed out. One can delete the individual toolbar items and make the toolbar empty and on the next restart the toolbar seems to have gone. -- - To unsubscribe send email to dev-unsubscr...@api.openoffice.org For additional commands send email to sy...@api.openoffice.org with Subject: help
[api-dev] Re: Toolbar items: how to get them to show the shortcut letter underlined ?
On 25.05.2011 14:32, Rony G. Flatscher wrote: How can I define a quickhelp text for each toolbar item? It seems that by default the label of the toolbar item is used as the quickhelp (tooltip?) text, and that does not exhibit the shortcut key by underlying it. Indeed the quickhelp text is the label. It *should* exhibit the shortcut key that is assigned to the same command as the toolbar item, if you make sure that the keyboard configuration was created before the toolbar was created. If not, this would be a missing feature ;-). As I wrote, the accelerator key was shown for built-in commands and for basic macros. So I don't see a general reason why it shouldn't work for scripts. As an example, I configured SHIFT-ALT-G for Insert-Gallery in the keyboard configuration. The view menu (don't ask me why the menu has it in view, the config in insert ;-)) immediately shows the new accelerator, the toolbar quickhelp doesn't. If I now open a new document, its toolbar shows the accelerator in the quickhelp text of the Gallery button. Just tried this via Tools-Customize, but it did not work with the toolbar item. *what* did you try? My example with .uno:Gallery or your script/macro? In case you didn't notice, it is necessary to create the toolbar *after* you have configured the shortcut, e.g. by opening a new document window. P.S.: One observation: it is not possible to delete the programmatically created toolbar using Tools - Customize as the delete option is greyed out. One can delete the individual toolbar items and make the toolbar empty and on the next restart the toolbar seems to have gone. I don't know if this is a bug or by intent, sorry. Regards, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Oracle: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Please don't reply to nospamfor...@gmx.de. I use it for the OOo lists and only rarely read other mails sent to it. -- - To unsubscribe send email to dev-unsubscr...@api.openoffice.org For additional commands send email to sy...@api.openoffice.org with Subject: help
[api-dev] Re: Toolbar items: how to get them to show the shortcut letter underlined ?
Hi Mathias, On 25.05.2011 16:40, Mathias Bauer wrote: On 25.05.2011 14:32, Rony G. Flatscher wrote: How can I define a quickhelp text for each toolbar item? It seems that by default the label of the toolbar item is used as the quickhelp (tooltip?) text, and that does not exhibit the shortcut key by underlying it. Indeed the quickhelp text is the label. It *should* exhibit the shortcut key that is assigned to the same command as the toolbar item, if you make sure that the keyboard configuration was created before the toolbar was created. If not, this would be a missing feature ;-). As I wrote, the accelerator key was shown for built-in commands and for basic macros. So I don't see a general reason why it shouldn't work for scripts. As an example, I configured SHIFT-ALT-G for Insert-Gallery in the keyboard configuration. The view menu (don't ask me why the menu has it in view, the config in insert ;-)) immediately shows the new accelerator, the toolbar quickhelp doesn't. If I now open a new document, its toolbar shows the accelerator in the quickhelp text of the Gallery button. Just tried this via Tools-Customize, but it did not work with the toolbar item. *what* did you try? My example with .uno:Gallery or your script/macro? Your example. In case you didn't notice, it is necessary to create the toolbar *after* you have configured the shortcut, e.g. by opening a new document window. Did try that, even shut down all instances of OOo writer. It's OOo 3.2.1 though, so maybe that does not work with that old version? In any case I changed the program to first define and store the accelerations and then create the toolbar items. Probably I will add a menu in addition, hoping that it will underline the shortcut letters. P.S.: One observation: it is not possible to delete the programmatically created toolbar using Tools - Customize as the delete option is greyed out. One can delete the individual toolbar items and make the toolbar empty and on the next restart the toolbar seems to have gone. I don't know if this is a bug or by intent, sorry. No problem. Thank you *very* much for your help and insights! Best regards, ---rony -- - To unsubscribe send email to dev-unsubscr...@api.openoffice.org For additional commands send email to sy...@api.openoffice.org with Subject: help
[api-dev] Re: Toolbar items: how to get them to show the shortcut letter underlined ?
On 25.05.2011 17:35, Rony G. Flatscher wrote: As an example, I configured SHIFT-ALT-G for Insert-Gallery in the keyboard configuration. The view menu (don't ask me why the menu has it in view, the config in insert ;-)) immediately shows the new accelerator, the toolbar quickhelp doesn't. If I now open a new document, its toolbar shows the accelerator in the quickhelp text of the Gallery button. Just tried this via Tools-Customize, but it did not work with the toolbar item. *what* did you try? My example with .uno:Gallery or your script/macro? Your example. In case you didn't notice, it is necessary to create the toolbar *after* you have configured the shortcut, e.g. by opening a new document window. Did try that, even shut down all instances of OOo writer. It's OOo 3.2.1 though, so maybe that does not work with that old version? Hm, probable. I tested with 3.3. Maybe if I come across a 3.2.1 I might try it again. Regards, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Oracle: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Please don't reply to nospamfor...@gmx.de. I use it for the OOo lists and only rarely read other mails sent to it. -- - To unsubscribe send email to dev-unsubscr...@api.openoffice.org For additional commands send email to sy...@api.openoffice.org with Subject: help
[api-dev] Re: Toolbar items: how to get them to show the shortcut letter underlined ?
Hi Mathias, sorry for the noise, the accelerators work correctly for both menu and toolbar items. The problem: during different test runs I created accelerators with Shift+Ctrl and for Shift+Alt without ever removing the accelerators upon uninstall. Therefore both sets of accelerators were operational, where for the menus the Shift+Ctrl shortcuts got used. After removing the accelerators with removeCommandFromAllKeyEvents() upon uninstall fixed the problem from then on. ---rony On 25.05.2011 23:09, Rony G. Flatscher wrote: Hi Mathias, maybe one more question: in addition to the toolbar I have created a menubar and all menu-items match the toolbar items (CommandURL, Label, etc.). The menus also work and show the icons and in addition they show the accelerator keys. *However*, the menu item accelerators show Shift+Ctrl, whereas the toolbar item accelerators (which are the only ones that got defined by my program) were defined with Shift+Meta2 (i.e. Shift+Alt). Both set of accelerators are operational! Is there a possibility to have the menu display and use the accelerator that got defined, i.e. Shift+Meta2? TIA, ---rony On 25.05.2011 18:01, Mathias Bauer wrote: On 25.05.2011 17:35, Rony G. Flatscher wrote: As an example, I configured SHIFT-ALT-G for Insert-Gallery in the keyboard configuration. The view menu (don't ask me why the menu has it in view, the config in insert ;-)) immediately shows the new accelerator, the toolbar quickhelp doesn't. If I now open a new document, its toolbar shows the accelerator in the quickhelp text of the Gallery button. Just tried this via Tools-Customize, but it did not work with the toolbar item. *what* did you try? My example with .uno:Gallery or your script/macro? Your example. In case you didn't notice, it is necessary to create the toolbar *after* you have configured the shortcut, e.g. by opening a new document window. Did try that, even shut down all instances of OOo writer. It's OOo 3.2.1 though, so maybe that does not work with that old version? Hm, probable. I tested with 3.3. Maybe if I come across a 3.2.1 I might try it again. Regards, Mathias -- - To unsubscribe send email to dev-unsubscr...@api.openoffice.org For additional commands send email to sy...@api.openoffice.org with Subject: help
