Re: Showing numpad key equivs in menu items
Re: Showing numpad key equivs in menu items
- Subject: Re: Showing numpad key equivs in menu items
- From: "David M. Cotter" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 07 May 2013 17:36:29 -0700
Hi, I'm Dave, senior engineer at Adobe Systems.
We definitely want this functionality, in fact filed a DTS incident for (and got some help with) custom-drawing menu items, for the express purpose of drawing an arbitrary string as the "keyboard shortcut" in menus. and i can tell you the work around was a PITA and is a bit fragile.
we really want this for the reason originally stated (eg: "Numpad +") but also to draw any string eg: "tap ⇧") as the "shortcut".
really the only API we need is something like "SetMenuItemShortcutString()", and rather than passing in a character, pass in a string, and have the OS "just take care of it".
we're wanting this not just for After Effects but also for all "DVA" products (many of the ones in "Creative Cloud")
so, please consider that "all of adobe wants this"
On May 7, 2013, at 5:05 PM, Eric Schlegel <email@hidden> wrote:
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> On May 7, 2013, at 4:45 PM, gweston <email@hidden> wrote:
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>>> In that case, I think Steve needs to quit whining that Apple engineers aren't doing his job for him, and implement his own menu drawing for his specialized case.
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>> You need to consider the possibility that Apple decided that not everything Carbon was able to do was legitimate to carry forward. That some of it might have even been fundamentally detrimental to user experience. It's among the most common reasons for behavior to be deprecated.
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> In this case, it's really more a lack of demonstrated interest as evidenced by Radar. I did a little Radar searching and found one Radar requesting support for numeric keypad command keys. That was from 2002. That bug is still in Analyze and there's no reason we couldn't do it in a future release if there's more interest in this feature expressed by developers. But the fact that it hasn't been done, in this case, has nothing to do with a desire to deprecate the feature.
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> Of course, ideally we would have provided every feature in Cocoa that was in active use by Carbon developers already. No debate there. But bugs and features get priority based on demand.
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> -eric
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