XUI buttons and shortcuts

Question

Hello everybody!!Does anybody knows how can I add shortcuts to my XUI buttons? I'm trying to implement some usability principles in my tool, and I want to provide access to the user through the keyboard.Thank you so much for your help and support. Regards!Paulette Zorrilla

naglists · Answer

Look at the map command. I think you are talking about enabling keyboard
commands (or shortcuts) like Control-C for copy to your environment. It is
very easy to do. It gets tricky (not technically, but usability-wise) if
you want to "steal" a default keyboard shortcut your users like.

Anyhow, you would map a keyboard command to the same function that the
button calls. You don't actually connect the keyboard command to the button
itself. You do have to take care, depending on how/where you are creating
this button, to be sure you are enabling the keyboard command in the right
window. (And resetting it if it should return to a "normal" behavior after
some act or state change.)

map control-p execute ComposePDFFile;

map control-r packagename::functionname();

map control-alt-h find -t -q "<_touchup>";

map control-alt-k {command1;command2;command3}

etc.

On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 10:07 AM, paulette zorrilla <
paulette.zorrilla@oracle.com> wrote:

> Hello everybody!!
>
> Does anybody knows how can I add shortcuts to my XUI buttons? I'm trying
> to implement some usability principles in my tool, and I want to provide
> access to the user through the keyboard.
>
> Thank you so much for your help and support. Regards!
>
> Paulette Zorrilla
>

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