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Subject: Re: MAUS
Date: Tue, 31 May 94 14:27:50 +0100
From: sjg
X-Mts: smtp
> Anyway, menu shortcuts SHOULD be configurable from an application, so
> the user can throw away control A altogether. I think we should also be
> thinking of developing guidelines for such a configurable menu assignment.
> A few ideas:
Menu shortcuts ought to be configurable, and even if not, they ought to be
read dynamically from the resource. So if a user changes the ^A in the the
file to ^P (why ?) he then gets to use ^P as the key for the menu entry.
This is pretty simple to do, but it would be simpler still if there was a
library function :-) A function that scans the strings then returns a pointer
to array of longs (words?) that describe the value given by the AES on a
key event would do. If ^A (now ^P) was on the 15th menu entry, then menuKey[15]
would be the AES's value for ^P.
At least this way, RSC editors can change the strings into a new language, and
give meaningful shortcuts to the user (for other than the 'standard' ones, of
course :-)
Simon.