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Doryforos

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Hello, forum!

I was directed here by Alexey Torgashin, the developer of cudatext, an incredibly responsive and helpful fellow, BTW, after posting a couple of feature requests for cudatext UI at GitHub. Alexey told me these are [or should be] implemented by the Lazarus LCL Library, hence this — my first — post, to present these ideas of mine and ask for your thoughts.

Easy to possibly ground-breaking, then:

#6008
Arrows do not cycle among Dialogue Buttons
https://github.com/Alexey-T/CudaText/issues/6008

Cycling among dialogue buttons with Up or Down arrows is not possible, only Left and Right are usable to just move [NOT CYCLE!] back and forth [while cycling using TAB/SHIFT+TAB works as expected].

I consider this a shortcoming [the more the keyboard options, the better!], might as well be considered a feature request — your call!

#6009
cudatext should respond to ALT+KeyCodes instead of ALT+Letters
https://github.com/Alexey-T/CudaText/issues/6009

Actually, ALL applications should be responsive to ALT+KeyCodes [according to Interface Language & Keyboard Layout] instead of ALT+Letters!

Examples:
  • if system/cudatext interface language is English, I expect ALT+Φ [that is, even when I have switched to Greek keyboard layout] to pull the file menu down, as well as ALT+F [instead of hearing the distracting — and extremely annoying! — system notification “Ding” sound, telling me I did something wrong!]
  • ALT+Ω, ς = ALT+V, w [toggle soft word wrap]

This is already the case when key bindings are used, for example CTRL+Θ = CTRL+U!
« Last Edit: August 08, 2025, 07:44:38 pm by Doryforos »

 

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