Re: Hotkeys and Toolbars
Welcome Ray,
What part of Ting (Aku)'s system wide hot key program does what you want, &
what's left not handled? Maybe it could be modified.
BTW, many here (well, me) are more familiar with Win32Lib & Judith's IDE
than with Andrea's EUwinGUI.
Dan Moyer
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ray Tomes" <rtomes at ihug.co.nz>
To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
Sent: Sunday, June 15, 2003 5:22 PM
Subject: Hotkeys and Toolbars
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> Hi All
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> 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.
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> 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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