On Dec 18, 2006, at 3:49 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
"Bennett" == Bennett Helm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Bennett> I just updated to current svn, and accelerator keys are now
Bennett> visible in menus. (And as you suspect, multi key accelerators
Bennett> don't show up. Of courese, they never showed up for 1.4.x or
Bennett> 1.3.x either, and I can't think of any other Mac program that
Bennett> uses them let alone displays them in menus.)
Very good. And are the accelerators correctly visible in status bar
(for example, if you use File>Open, it tells you that it is
Command+O)?
Yes: they appear in the status bar both when selecting from the menu
and when using the tool bar. With File > Open, they appear in the
status bar only *after* the drop-down sheet has gone away (whether by
selecting a file to open or by cancelling). In doing so, they appear
in place of the info that normally gets displayed ("File ... opened"
or "Cancelled").
However, things are different when you type the accelerator key
directly: in this case, the accelerator key appears in the status bar
only when there is no other information to be presented there. If,
however, there is that info to be presented, that takes priority over
displaying the accelerator.
I'm not sure whether this is desirable or not.
One problem, though. When the accelerators are displayed, they use
non-Mac conventions for displaying the names of the modifier keys.
Thus, what should be "Command + O" (or "Cmd + O" or, better yet,
using the cloverleaf symbol) gets displayed as "Ctrl + O", and what
should be "Option + P" (or "Opt + P") gets displayed as "Alt + P".
Bennett
