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Re: standard event bindings
On Thu, 2002-06-20 at 08:15, Jim Kingdon wrote:
> Unfortunately, this doesn't work so well either. All the keyboards I
> use (for example, laptop keyboards) don't have a convenient keypad (it
> involves using a Fn key or a "keypad" mode or some such).
What if you use the = (equal sign) for zooming in, since the same key
produces a + (plus sign) when you hold down the "Shift" key, and use the
- (minus sign) for zooming out?
>
> I can't help but think there is a simpler solution. Usually in tcl,
> if one has confusion between "{}" as "{" and as empty string, it has
> to do with getting quoting wrong. Seems to me (as far as I can tell
> from the bind(n) manpage) that "%K" is wrong and it should be just %K.
> In tcl, {} are quotes, so I think what is happening is that tcl quotes
> for you and then the "" quote it again, so it then does become
> impossible to distinguish between "{" and an empty string. I haven't
> tested this hypothesis, though.
I can't help wondering how difficult it would be to switch to another
GUI toolkit altogether, such at Qt or GTK+. I hear that both Qt and
GTK+ can run on virtually any operating system without any modification
beyond a recompile. And I've never heard of either of them having the
kinds of key-binding quirks you describe.