Hotkeys and Toolbars
Hi All
I would like to make a little toolbar that pops up whenever I hit a
hotkey, and then allows either a keystroke (or two) to be used or a
button push and allows me to do simple common tasks such as launch my
favourite programs. That way I can get rid of all my desk top icons with
their ctrl-alt- sequences for launching things and have an almost empty
desktop so that I boot faster (important on Win-Me as you have to boot
rather frequently).
I am doing this partly as an exercise in learning Euphoria and partly
because I want the tool. Requirements of my HotKeyToolBar are:
1. The program should disappear most of the time.
2. The hotkey should work no matter what window I have up.
3. A little toolbar should appear and allow either mouse button press or
keystroke input (usually 1 but maybe 2 keystrokes).
4. The keystroke will determine an action such as launch a windows
program (not necessarily Eu).
5. The toolbar should then vanish again but still remain active.
6. There should be an easy option to reprogram some of the functions
temporarily to launch some applications that are being used a lot.
Any hints about doing this are welcome.
I have found Ting's system wide hotkey which does part of what I want.
However I have some difficulty because of my lack of GUI jargon
comprehension (see previous post).
When I tried to get keystrokes I ended up with a big window popping up
which I didn't want, so I figure that wait_key is not the right way to
do this in GUI. How do I get a keystroke without a box for it assuming
my toolbar is selected)?
Ray Tomes
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