On 08/04/2017 06:45, Black Michael wrote:
Allow F1,F2 and F3 to work when menus are hidden
Change F1 to bring up local help instead of online help
Add CTRL+M text to menu entry without keyboard shortcut to avoid
hosing Macs
Update tooltip for signal meter (had incorrect info in it)
F1 right now brings up online help which seems like the wrong thing to
do IMHO. One may not have internet access and the local help is more
up-to-date anyways especially for dev versions.
I didn't see where the other function keys needed to be available when
the menus are hidden.
Hi Mike,
I will try and look at this later. You are on dodgy ground with some of
this due to the way the Mac menus are expected to work. I like the idea
of using the ALT key to hide and show the menu bar and I had done some
work to implement this already but had not got it working to my
satisfaction yet. This mechanism is pretty common these days, for
example many ribbon interface Windows applications as well as Firefox
and Thunderbird do it. Note that on Mac and many Linux window managers
and also the Ubuntu Unity desktop the menu is more Mac like as a single
shared system menu bar that cannot be hidden.
I believe the main issue is that we have introduced a binary feature
(toggle) that disables it's own enable switch, this is problematic as
several users appear to have turned in on "just to see what happens" and
then have no idea how to turn it back off. Splitting the menu bar hiding
from the other control hiding would seem wise if we can implement it
without adding a lot of complexity and future maintenance hazards.
BTW I believe that having F1 (CMD+F1 on Mac) show the online User Guide
is correct. We should not assume that the majority of users are using a
development build nor that the majority have no Internet connection.
Having the shortcut key go to the online documentation allows us to
tweak the User Guide post release and also to add foreign language
translations which are selected automatically according to the user's
locale. The local User Guide should be considered as a backstop for the
very few that have no Internet connection and a happy to have only a
English version. If we do anything here then a warning and reverting to
the local User Guide if the online one cannot be fetched seems
appropriate if it is not too hard nor messy to implement.
73
Bill
G4WJS.
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