[Lifelines-dev] wxwidgets version of lifelines

[amores p. <lif...@ho...>]

Kevin and Perry have been discussing Kevin making a wxwidgets interface for 
lifelines.

We're going to continue our discussion here on the lifelines-dev list; 
obviously
in order to solicit ideas and comments from others.

We've briefly discussed hotkeys (shortcut keys to perform actions directly
from the keyboard).

ncurses lifelines only has hotkeys (it doesn't have a mouse or titlebar/menu
interface).

Some of the hotkeys for ncurses lifelines are nice and mnemonic, eg, f for 
father,
e for edit.

I think it would be nice to preserve these, as far as is convenient, in a 
GUI
version. Also, because these are English-centric, I think it would be nice 
to
make these localizable; perhaps f for English and Danish, v for Dutch
and German, pi in Greek, p in Spanish and French, and so forth, and anyway,
really up to whoever volunteers to do translation.

Some of the ncurses lifelines hotkeys use quite unusual letters, such as
exclamation mark (!n for normal GEDCOM mode) or percent
(%s for add source), or caret (^b for back in history). I chose these, and
primarily because I felt constrained to pick short ones that were ASCII and
did not overlap with existing ones. These maybe we can dispense with
preserving, as they are not as convenient and mnemonic? Also they are
unusual for a GUI application.


Cordially,

Perry