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It is useful to be able to invoke menu commands directly from the keyboard. The Thot toolkit provides a facility that lets user accomplish this by means of an application keyboard shortcuts file. This file defines a list of associations between a keyboard sequence and the corresponding invoked command.
The syntax used to define an association is:
Directive = KeySeq ':' IdentCommand ; KeysSeq = KeySet [ ',' KeySet ] ; KeySet = [ Modifier ] [ 'Shift' ] Key ; Key = '<Key>' KeyValue / '<Key>' SpecialKey ; Modifier = 'Ctrl' / 'Alt' / 'Meta' ; KeyValue = 'a' / 'b' / ... ; SpecialKey = 'Escape' / 'Delete' / 'Space' / 'BackSpace' / 'Enter' / 'Up' / 'Down' / 'Left' / 'Right' / 'Home' / 'End' / 'F1' / ... / 'L1' / ... / 'R1' / ... ; IdentCommand = 'TtcInsertChar(' Char ')' / NAME '()' ; Char = KeyValue / OctalValue ; OctalValue = '\' NUMBER ;
For an example, see the standard files amaya.keyboard
(for
Unix platforms) and amaya.kb
(for Windows platforms), which are
by default located in the directory Amaya/config
.
The list of available commands is:
File
menu:
Structure
menu:
Links
menu:
Views
menu:
Style
menu:
Special
menu:
Annotations
menu
Help
menu: