11Oct 2011
A present for Charles McCathieNevile
17:33 - By BlueGriffon - Progress - 6 comments
Charles McCathieNevile (aka chaals, Chief Standards Officer of Opera) pinged me a while ago because he wanted to create his own keyboard shortcuts inside BlueGriffon. As far as I know, such a feature is extremely rare in the Mozilla xulrunner-based world. But I agreed it was a legitimate request in an editing environment...
I'm almost done. There will in version 1.3 of BlueGriffon a new preference panel allowing to tweak all keyboard shortcuts, add a shortcut to a menu item or toolbar item having no shortcut yet, delete an existing shortcut. On Mac, it's a bit more complex than on Windows and Linux because of the hidden window and the OS X-managed toolbar. But it already works.
I have to iron a bit things, handle persistency across sessions (a non issue, really), localize properly all strings and messages through entities and properties and it will hit a subversion repository near you. Possibly a first in the Mozilla world.
Now chaals, happy ? 






6 comments
Komodo has something like customizable keybindings, but I don't really like the implementation as it only works in some places (it's addEventListener based).
Excited to see what the BlueGriffon implementation will look like! Given that you're doing it, it's probably less hacky
@Mook: my implementation is not event-based at all...
Will it be possible to format text with shortcuts ? I miss this Dreamweaver feature. For example, CTRL + 1 to change a paragraph in a H1 title, CTRL + 2 for H2, etc.
@Guillaume: yes!
Great, thanks Daniel ! Dreamweaver uninstallation incoming
Hi, first of all, congratulations for this perfect software :D
Please, in the new version, try to use the default Web Browser.
Because i have lots of accounts and i need to change in every account and every computer i have.
And for the last, please made a DEB package for Ubuntu or based Distros.
Big thanks to you