Actions/Shortcuts

[ogoffart]

Menus should have actions with associated shortcut

Some defaults include Quit / Open / Save / Copy / Paste / ...

[woile]

I'm on KDE and I'm running the app, I've tried to quit the application with ctrl+Q but it doesn't close. I have 2 questions:

1. How should this work? Is it platform specific?
2. What's the current way to handle this in slint? should one use FocusScope?

Thanks!

[hunger]

@woile: It should work, but it is not yet implemented :-/

[kermitfrog]

(Translateable) accelerators would be great, too;

Like in Qt: "&File" in Menu, means it's activated by 'F'

[ogoffart]

In Slint 1.13, if you have a global FocusScope on your window, one can add the capture-key-pressed event and change shortcut there.

What we'd like to do in future version is the following:

• Add a keyboard-shortcut builtin type, that can be assigned with something like @keys(shift + control + a) (WIP in compiler: Have a key-sequence type #8906)
• Add a shortcut property to MenuItem, so one can do

export MainWindow inherits Window {
   MenuBar {
      Menu {
          title: @tr("File");
          MenuItem {
             title: @tr("Open");
             shortcut: @keys(Ctrl+O);
             activated => { /*...*/ } 
          }
      } 
   }
}

[ubruhin]

One important thing of shortcuts is to be dependent on the current focus. For example if the focus is in a TextInput, we may want the shortcut Ctrl+Z to undo the last modification just in that text input. But if the focus is not in the TextInput, the shortcut event should bubble up to its parents until one of them captures the same shortcut for another action (e.g. Ctrl+Z would then undo changes in the opened document instead).

Somehow I am thinking about a Shortcut element like this:

export MainWindow inherits Window {
    // Global shortcuts
    Shortcut {
        shortcut: @keys(Ctrl+Z);
        activated => { /* undo changes in document */ }
    }

    // Somewhere in a child widget, e.g. in a properties sidebar of selected objects
    TextInput {
        Shortcut {
            shortcut: @keys(Ctrl+Z);
            activated => { /* undo changes in this text input */ }
        }
    }
}

Just my 2 cents without thinking too much about it yet, so I'm not sure if that makes sense.