[wxPython-users] Tell between menu item click and accelerator keypress

[Christopher Barker]

Rob McMullen wrote:
> On 10/9/07, Christopher Barker <Chris.Barker at noaa.gov> wrote:
>> Even though I am an Emacs user, I don't want to be using Emacs-style key
>> bindings in my editor -- I want to use binding that match all the other
>> pas I run as much as possible.
> 
> OTOH, I happen to like the emacs keybindings.

Exactly -- my point was that you really want to support both.

> users should be able to define their own
> keybindings if they don't like the already-built-in windows and emacs
> style. 

Bingo! Though I think having the obvious ones available out of the box 
is critical.

By the way, I have no personal interest, but does your framework support 
vi-style bindings? That's a whole different ball of wax!

 > (I want to have Mac-style bindings built in at some point as
> well

I'll help with that -- they are pretty similar to the Windows ones for 
the most part -- at least if wx maps "control" to "command" for you. 
though it's a bit odd -- as OS-X has both command and control!

 > along with a gui to change keybindings in addition to the
> current ini-style file).

That'd be nice, but ini files are OK to.

-CHB


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