Handy LiveCode Keyboard Shortcut Cards

Mark Wieder mwieder at ahsoftware.net
Mon Nov 23 21:39:02 EST 2015


On 11/23/2015 05:11 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
> Mark Wieder wrote:
>  > On 11/22/2015 07:48 PM, Howard Bornstein wrote:
>  >> Very nice.
>  >>
>  >> You might want to add the following shortcuts to the debugger section:
>  >>
>  >> Step Into: Cmd-I
>  >> Step Over: Cmd-O
>  >> Step Out: Cmd-T
>  >> Stop:  Cmd-Y
>  >> Run:   Cmd->
>  >> Toggle Breakpoint: Cmd-\
>  >
>  > Well, I can't say I'm much of a fan of hijacking the operating system
>  > keyboard shortcuts. That just leads to user confusion.
>
> Which keys would you suggest that don't conflict with any shortcuts
> provided in the Windows, OS X, Gnome, or KDE HIGs? :)
>

PowerDebug supports the VisualStudio keyboard equivalents along with the 
others. They're well documented and nonconflicting, e.g.
F5 = run
F10 = step over
F11 = step into
shift-F11 = step out
etc.

The idea of surprising users by hijacking Cmd-O makes no sense to me.

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  Mark Wieder
  ahsoftware at gmail.com




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