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Re: "How to provide configurable keyboard shortcuts to users of..."
I am using a toolkit and, since the last version, it provides a great level of abstraction over this. I get to choose between the hardware keycode, the virtual keycode (after layouts and re-mappings), and the actual character being written by the key press (if any). I'm mostly conviced of choosing the latter, when available, but I'm still unsure about the modifier. If ':' can only be produced by pressing Shift, should the "Shift+:" and ":" bindings both work or only the first one?
May 06 · 3 weeks ago
How to provide configurable keyboard shortcuts to users of my application? — I'm writing a desktop app that provides configurable keyboard shortcuts. For now these are set up by writing key sequences to a file. Of course, something that sounds straightforward stops being so as soon as you get past the surface. I am now trying to figure out what's more "intuitive" (if such thing even exists) when you're trying to serialize a sequence of keystrokes to text. For example, let's say you have a US...