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Stephane Ducasse ducasse at iam.unibe.ch
Fri Apr 20 10:40:46 UTC 2001


If you are interested in having the possibility to have different key
shortcut with instance based paragraph or textmorph. I have a changeset that
introduces that in 2.8 and work well.
Just ask

> 
> I just released MagicKeys, a graphical utility for doing just that: viewing
> and adjusting keybindings (and importing/exporting them). It even comes with
> some e-macs like keybindings. Check out the webpage at
> http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~wuyts/magickeys/ for more information and some
> screenshots to see what I mean. It is for VisualWorks, but could of course
> be ported to Squeak.
> 
> The implementation consists of two parts:
> (1) reading an instance of DispatchTable, and converting it to something
> that makes sense and is readable (and converting that back to a dispatch
> table). This was the hard work: reverse engineering the dispatch table,
> paragraph editor and FeelPolicy.
> (2) the GUI to capture keystrokes, define keybindings, sort them, etc.
> 
> I can have a look to port (1) in Squeak (which is necessary to port the
> GUI), but I don't have the time to create the -for the user- all important
> GUI part.... Anybody up to the challenge ? Maybe we can do this at the
> Stable Squeak event at ESUG in Essen ?
> 
> 
> 
> --
> Roel Wuyts                           Software Composition Group
> Roel.Wuyts at iam.unibe.ch         University of Bern, Switzerland
> Board member of the European Smalltalk User Group: www.esug.org
> 





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