Re: Currently Assigned to

[Salvador E. T. <sal...@in...>]

Sorry for the big delay.

Thiago F.G. Albuquerque wrote:

> On Mon, 13 Dec 2004, Salvador Eduardo Tropea wrote:
>
>> Thiago F.G. Albuquerque wrote:
>>
>>> In the key binding dialog, when you assign a key that was already 
>>> assigned to something else, the editor warns you. But it doesn't 
>>> tell you which stuff it was previously assigned to. That's something 
>>> I miss. I'd like to have one extra field (widget?) in the "Sequence 
>>> of keys" window with the caption "currently assigned to:"  that 
>>> would display to what the currently selected item in the list box is 
>>> assigned to.
>>>
>>> I imagine this would involve doing a reverse lookup in the key 
>>> binding table (if such thing exists).
>>
>>
>> I implemented it, is in the CVS. Please try it and tell me if it 
>> works as you describe.
>> Currently what I'm doing is to simulate the "addition" process every 
>> time the sequence is edited. The result of the simulated addition is 
>> displayed at the top of the dialog.
>
>
> Sorry for the delay.
>
> It is working, but I have some remarks.
>
> 1) The "assigned to" field doesn't show the command assigned to the 
> key currently selected it the list box: it shows the command assigned 
> to the last key pressed. So, if you change the selection in the edit 
> box (in case this is a multi-key assignment), it still shows the 
> command assigned to the other key.
>
> But, now that I am thinking about it, in the case of multi-key 
> assignments, this wouldn't make sense anyway. Because what the user 
> would want to know in a case like this is: "to what command this *key 
> sequence* is assigned?" and not "to what each individual key of the 
> sequence is assigned?"


Yes, I think the important thing is to know about the complete sequence.

> 2) Cosmetic stuff: maybe the "assigned to" label should be below the 
> boxes (edit box and radio group) or just below the edit box.


May be, I'll try it and see if the result looks better.

Regards, SET


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