Are there any Lazarus/Delphi libraries dedicated to fully keyboard
driven apps?
lazarus / 21-General

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vfclists · 2021-02-11 00:45

After developing a dislike for reaching for the mouse and  having
acquired a taste of using Emacs and EXWM in a fully keyboard driven
manner, I want to know if there a some practices for developing fully
keyboard driven forms, and dialogs.

Are there some frameworks dedicated to that purpose?

For instance if a form has menus and TAction items with keyboard
driven equivalents is there some routine which can scan all of them
and present some kind of form overlay displaying key combinations to
trigger the actions, even if not all of them are visible?

A good of example of what happens in a browser is shown below. Of
course a form will have fewer items.

The second attachment if the display of the which-key plugin, which
displays the commands available after pressing a leader key.


Are there frameworks, libraries or components that offer something
similar for Lazarus?

Are there some kind of assistive frameworks for Lazarus?

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MarkMLl · 2021-02-11 08:23

There's obviously support for tabbing between entry fields etc., but
it's basically work that you as an app designer/programmer have to do
yourself.

I notice that you use the word "assistive": if you find the mouse
uncomfortable (and I assure you that I've BTDT) you might find a
trackball more comfortable, and I also find a gamer's keypad extremely
useful
https://wiki.freepascal.org/Lazarus_IDE_with_Nostromo_Keypad_on_Linux

MarkMLl