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Bug 18059 - Teh documentation does not describe the keyboard shortcuts to control the IDE with keyboard
Summary: Teh documentation does not describe the keyboard shortcuts to control the IDE...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: usersguide
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Code (show other bugs)
Version: 3.x
Hardware: PC Windows ME/2000
: P4 blocker (vote)
Assignee: gloria geller
URL:
Keywords: A11Y
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2001-11-23 15:55 UTC by iformanek
Modified: 2003-02-04 20:47 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Description iformanek 2001-11-23 15:55:34 UTC 
e.g. F10 to get to menu, Shift+F10 to display popup menu, cycling between 
windows, etc.
Comment 1 _ ttran 2001-11-23 16:59:32 UTC 
to be exact they are default key bindings, the user can change it if
they want.  Please file bugs in user's guide against userguide module.
Comment 2 Jan Chalupa 2001-11-27 17:24:09 UTC 
Target milestone -> 3.3.1.
Comment 3 Patrick Keegan 2001-11-27 21:18:12 UTC 
Ian, could you clarify what you mean by cycling through windows? Not 
Alt-Right (cycling through tabs)? Nor simply opening certains windows? 
I didn't see anything like this in the Keyboard Shortcuts dialog. Nor 
did I see F10 listed in that dialog. Is this a known issue?
Comment 4 iformanek 2001-11-28 17:57:26 UTC 
They are not the IDE shortcuts, I believe that Swing implements those.
By cycling through windows I meant e.g. going from Explorer to the 
Editor using the keyboard.
Comment 5 Patrick Keegan 2002-07-03 19:30:55 UTC 
F10, Shift-F10 documented. I also added a note about the possibility of cycling through windows with a 
window manager shortcut (such as Alt-Tab).

Currently there is not a reliable way to cycle through internal frames within MDI. According to Marek 
Slama, Alt-F6 could work, but some window managers swallow this, so it shouldn't be documented.

For accessibility purposes, we should probably document Swing shortcuts (not changeable in the IDE) for 
things like selecting components within a given window (e.g. selecting a button or a property in the 
property sheet), expanding nodes, opening files, etc.

Gloria, you can use http://java.sun.com/products/jlf/ed2/book/Appendix.A.html#44842 and the page in the 
current docs on JavaHelp shortcuts as starting points (they are 
basically Swing shortcuts). If (and only if) you have time, it would be nice to have this in 3.4. One new 
topic may suffice, but it also might make sense to do more than simply provide a list of shortcuts, since 
these shortcuts deal lots of different user tasks (Explorer-based, property sheet based, etc.)
Comment 6 Marek Grummich 2002-07-22 11:46:00 UTC 
Set target milestone to TBD
Comment 7 Marek Grummich 2002-07-22 11:49:21 UTC 
Set target milestone to TBD
Comment 8 gloria geller 2003-02-04 20:47:16 UTC 
Added new help topic "Window Navigation Shortcuts" 
to describe JFC/Swing shortcuts to close a folder (node),
open a folder (node), to shift focus to the next component,
etc.