[Lazarus] Lazarus shortcuts conflict with windows shortcuts

Mattias Gaertner nc-gaertnma at netcologne.de
Tue Aug 14 17:43:06 CEST 2012


On Tue, 07 Aug 2012 22:00:48 +0100
Hans-Peter Diettrich <DrDiettrich1 at aol.com> wrote:

> Jürgen Hestermann schrieb:
> > I saw that quite a lot of keyboard shortcuts in Lazarus use Ctrl+Alt 
> > combos.
> > On Windows this is not a good idea because (system wide) user shortcuts
> > for programs on the desktop use Ctrl+Alt combos too so they conflict 
> > with each other.
> > Is it realy necessary to use Ctrl+Alt combos?
> 
> It's dangerous, because AltGr is also encoded as CTRL-ALT, when it comes 
> to shortcut testing.

I doubt we can maintain different shortcut tables for different
keyboard layouts. The current table for MS Windows defines 232
shortcuts. Design time packages define their
own shortcuts.
Maybe someone knows an elegant solution to reduce the number of
conflicts.

Mattias




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