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MagicKeys

Explore the power of the Smalltalk environment with MagicKeys! Browse classes and methods, find senders/implementors, and manipulate keybindings easily.

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MagicKeys

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  1. MagicKeys Roel Wuyts Essen, August 28th 2001

  2. Smalltalking = Browsing • The power of a Smalltalker is the power of its environment: • Browsing classes and class hierarchies • Browsing methods • Finding senders/implementors • … ==> Environment is extremely important!

  3. MagicKeys • How to bring the power of the Smalltalk environment at your fingertips ? ==> MagicKeys ! • Showing the list of keybindings • Manipulating keybindings • Loading/saving of keybindings • Seeing all possible keybindings commands

  4. Demo

  5. Implementation

  6. Dispatchtable <-> KeyBindings • dispatchTable: baseTable: $a -> #(nil #action1 nil nil nil nil nil nil #action2 …) composeTable:ESC -> #( $( #action $)#action2 • KeyBindings = char -> event

  7. Hairy things • UIFeelPolicy/ParagraphEditor way of handling alt and meta keystrokes • Ctrl-?? characters: constants in the TextConstants Dictionary • UISettings integration

  8. Limitations/Problems • Unloading: does not always works at this moment. Manually set FeelPolicy to something after unload • Only Ctrl-?? can be interrupt key • On Mac: alt- and meta modifiers swapped ?! Roland ? :-)

  9. Get it Where ? • My web-page: http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~wuyts/ • Cincom Public Store (for VW5i) • Versions for: • VisualWorks Envy/4 • VisualWorks 3 • VisualWorks 5i

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