Re: Module-wise Keyboard preferences

It would be easier for users if we determined the best shortcut for these are and then list them rather than give people options.

For example:

On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 2:31 PM Harshal Dhumal <harshaldhumal15@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Dave,

On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 5:26 PM, Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org> wrote:

Hi

On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 9:29 AM, Harshal Dhumal <harshal.dhumal@enterprisedb.com> wrote:

Hi Dave,

On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 4:58 PM, Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org> wrote:

Hi

To summarise an offline discussion we just had, the intention is to replace the switches with checkboxes for Shift, Control, and Alt/Option, then to try to come up with a set of default shortcuts that work on the major platforms/browsers. Investigation into Javascript's handling of keycodes vs. strings is ongoing to figure out the best way to capture and display the selected keys for non-ASCII locales (String.fromCharCode()).

I have replaced switches with checkboxes and also showing all controls for one preference in single line.

I'm still not happy with the way that looks. Wrapping "Alt/Option" looks horrible - plus it also looks a little odd that labels are closer to the preceding controls than to the following controls to which they actually apply.

 

Regarding String.fromCharCode() to reverse map keycode to char (actual char on keyboard) does not work for all keyboard keys.

For eg. on mac with standard keyboard and with my locale settings I got below behaviour.

For key tilde (~) I got keycode 192 (Unicode value of the pressed keyboard key as per docs) and

when I tried to map 192 (String.fromCharCode(192)) to get actual char, I got À

So instead of mapping keycode to char for display purposse I'm using char which is returned by event object 

OK, sounds fine.

Regarding the patch:

- It's missing doc updates

My patch is related to add infrastructure for keyboard shortcut preferences and not to add any particular preference.

We can add docs for actual keyboard preference when we start adding keyboard preferences.

I share two patches out of one is example (keyboard shortcut preferences for debugger) and not a final patch.

It's purpose is provide example (for developers only) about how to add keyboard preferences.

Please let me know which doc updates are you expecting?

 

- There's a huge chunk of JS in there. Can that be split up into smaller chunks and unit tests created for them?

Thanks.

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