[wxPython-users] The best way to jump around between 3 areas of program?

[AK]

Robin Dunn wrote:
> AK wrote:
>> Programs that have multiple panes usually have a shortcut to jump 
>> around them. For instance, Treepad uses ctrl-tab. But I already have 
>> flatNotebook in one pane, and ctrl-tab is also used for switching 
>> tabs. Is there a shortcut that's used in a few programs that's not 
>> ctrl-tab? For that matter, I couldn't find how to change it in 
>> flatnotebook.py. Is it using wx.EVT_NAVIGATION_KEY, it seems, but how 
>> then it knows if it's ctrl-tab or ctrl-alt-tab for reverse switch? 
>> There's event.GetDirection() call there, I feel like I'm a little 
>> lost. I'm thinking maybe I should use ctrl-right and ctrl-left to 
>> change tabs and ctrl-tab to cycle through 3 areas of the application. 
>> thanks! -ak
>>
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> Depending on the platform and the widgets that are involved then you 
> may be able to just use tab to go through the whole UI, including into 
> and out of subpanels, etc.
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That's no good because there's a lot of controls and it would be even 
slower than just using the mouse to tab 7 or 10 times to get somewhere.. 
I think as a rule of thumb, at least for my taste, if some action in the 
program is done very often, it should be possible to do with one 
keyboard shortcut.. thanks, -ak