Menu Shortcuts
lazarus / 1-Linux

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Bart · 2006-06-14 13:37

Hi,

This might be standard linux behaviour, but I don't know (being a
newbie).

Using Lazarus 0.9.16
I have a form with a mainmenu
The menu-items have shortcuts
  Ctrl+F
  Alt+F
  Ctrl+Alt+F
  Ctrl+Shift+F

If i have a form without any editing components these shortcuts do
work.
If I add some editor on the form (TEdit, TMemo, TSynMemo) and give it
focus, the shortcuts do not work.

When a TMemo or TEdit has focus, none of the shortcuts work.
When a SynMemo has focus Ctrl+F and Actr+Shif+F do not work, whereas
Alt+F and Ctrl+Alt+F do work (I have all KeyStrokes removed from the
SynMemo)

If I run the same project under Windows, all shortcuts work, no matter
what component has the focus at that moment.

I use SuSe linux 10.0 with KDE

Maybe Ctrl+F has some standard keystroke binding in linux, I do not
know.
(I figured out why Ctrl+F10 did not work ...)

I use menu shortcuts quite often, most of them in a standard way
(Ctrl+S = save (file); Ctrl+F = find; Ctrl+N = new; Ctrl+B = bold
etc.) and  I can hardly believe that this cannot be done under linux.

I know that the app "see" the keystrokes, I can catch them if I set
KeyPreview of the main form to true and us the OnKeyDown event, but
that seems to be a rather silly way to implement menu-shortcuts, that
are supposed to be implemented already....

Can anyone shed some light on this subject??

Thanx,

Bart