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Mon, 07 October 2013 13:16

Eclipse User

In standard e4 application, it is possible to assign mnemonic to the menu item by put ampersand (&) to the letter like "E&xit".

It seems it is not working with e(fx)clipse.

Thanks

Re: menu mnemonics [message #1128518 is a reply to message #1128418]

Mon, 07 October 2013 15:42

Eclipse User

JavaFX uses _ for mnemonics - I'm uncertain whether the renderer should
replace & through _ automagically, leanig towards no.

Tom

On 07.10.13 19:16, Dennis Lee wrote:
> In standard e4 application, it is possible to assign mnemonic to the
> menu item by put ampersand (&) to the letter like "E&xit".
>
> It seems it is not working with e(fx)clipse.
>
> Thanks
>

Re: menu mnemonics [message #1128532 is a reply to message #1128518]

Mon, 07 October 2013 16:05

Eclipse User

I think _ is good for me. It seems _ does not work with menu item thought. Menu item does not work with Mnemonics field either.

The toolbar is work with _. I didn't know about it. Thanks a lot.

Re: menu mnemonics [message #1128536 is a reply to message #1128532]

Mon, 07 October 2013 16:06

Eclipse User

on what platform does _ not work for menuitems?

Tom

On 07.10.13 22:05, Dennis Lee wrote:
> I think _ is good for me. It seems _ does not work with menu item
> thought. Menu item does not work with Mnemonics field either.
> The toolbar is work with _. I didn't know about it. Thanks a lot.

Re: menu mnemonics [message #1128545 is a reply to message #1128536]

Mon, 07 October 2013 16:18

Eclipse User

I should have mentioned.

It is Windows 7 JDK 8 Build b109. Eclipse 4.3.1. All of them is 64 bit.

And latest (a few minutes ago) e(fx)clipse run-time.

[Updated on: Mon, 07 October 2013 16:19] by Moderator

Re: menu mnemonics [message #1128550 is a reply to message #1128545]

Mon, 07 October 2013 16:24

Eclipse User

have you tried a pure JavaFX app does it work there?

Tom

On 07.10.13 22:18, Dennis Lee wrote:
> I should have mentioned.
> It is Windows 7 JDK 8 Build b109. Eclipse 4.3.1. All of the is 64 bit.
>
> And latest (a few minutes ago) e(fx)clipse run-time.

Re: menu mnemonics [message #1128558 is a reply to message #1128550]

Mon, 07 October 2013 16:33

Eclipse User

Hi Tom,

I think I was confused with something else. It is actually working. I thought menu mnemonics should display short cut key besides the menu but that is something else.

Yes _ work with menu mnemonics. Sorry about all confusion I made and thank again for your help.

Re: menu mnemonics [message #1128584 is a reply to message #1128558]

Mon, 07 October 2013 17:09

Eclipse User

On 07.10.13 22:33, Dennis Lee wrote:
> Hi Tom,
>
> I think I was confused with something else. It is actually working. I
> thought menu mnemonics should display short cut key besides the menu but
> that is something else.

those are keybindings - we don't yet support showing bound keys in the
menu, i have filed https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=418875
and scheduled it for 1.0

Tom

Re: menu mnemonics [message #1128624 is a reply to message #1128584]

Mon, 07 October 2013 18:07

Eclipse User

That's great! I didn't even know key binding is not working but I think eventually I need it some time.

[Updated on: Mon, 07 October 2013 18:07] by Moderator

Re: menu mnemonics [message #1128632 is a reply to message #1128624]

Mon, 07 October 2013 18:14

Eclipse User

KeyBindings do work (they did since a long time), what did not work was
that the binding is shown next to the item but what should i say: It was
an easy fix and so i just pushed it to master, build just kicked off.

Naturally they only work with handled menu items, so if you have a
MenuItem bound to a command and a keybinding is bound to the same
command you should now see the trigger sequence in the menu-item.

Need to see if we show them as well on the toolitems later on, time to
sleep.

Tom

On 08.10.13 00:07, Dennis Lee wrote:
> That's great! I didn't even know binding is not working but I think
> eventually I need it some time.

Re: menu mnemonics [message #1128655 is a reply to message #1128632]

Mon, 07 October 2013 18:50

Eclipse User

I just tried and saw it working. Displayed besides menu items and run the command.

Re: menu mnemonics [message #1173533 is a reply to message #1128418]

Wed, 06 November 2013 10:38

Eclipse User

Sorry, but mnemonics works only for Latin characters and does not work for Cyrillic

Re: menu mnemonics [message #1173577 is a reply to message #1173533]

Wed, 06 November 2013 11:15

Eclipse User

So did you try in a pure fx-app? Do they work there?

Tom

On 06.11.13 16:38, Dmitriy Shishkin wrote:
> Sorry, but mnemonics works only for Latin characters and does not work
> for Cyrillic

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