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LionTech wrote: The keyboard interface for the plugin: I'm still thinking about the best solution...
I would like to use the cursor keys to navigate through the chars.
Is it possible to enable Ctrl-Tab and Ctrl+Shift-Tab to navigate through the tab sheets?
Tab stops seem to be useless in a plugin?
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Lefteous wrote:
LionTech wrote: The keyboard interface for the plugin: I'm still thinking about the best solution...
I would like to use the cursor keys to navigate through the chars.
Is it possible to enable Ctrl-Tab and Ctrl+Shift-Tab to navigate through the tab sheets?
Tab stops seem to be useless in a plugin?
I agree with you about Ctrl+Tab and Ctrl+Shift+Tab.
I would add also Tab - it could be used to move focus between combo boxes and list of chars at the Glyphs tab.
PageDown and PageUp would be also useful to scroll the long pages.

Another thing: when you move to the tab like: Info - the focus could be at once at the info panel to be able to scroll it with arrows or PageDown, PageUp - now you have to click with a mouse first :-(
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I agree with you about Ctrl+Tab and Ctrl+Shift+Tab.
I would add also Tab - it could be used to move focus between combo boxes and list of chars at the Glyphs tab.
PageDown and PageUp would be also useful to scroll the long pages.

Another thing: when you move to the tab like: Info - the focus could be at once at the info panel to be able to scroll it with arrows or PageDown, PageUp - now you have to click with a mouse first
The convention in MS applications is to use Ctrl+PgUp/PgDn to move through the Tabs.

I can't use Tab to switch between the combo-box because in QuickView mode Tab is used to switch between the TC panels.

Also, the default behaviour of a combo-box is that pressing an alpha-numeric key moves the selection to the first item in the list that begins with that letter/number. TC expects it has access to N and P to move through the Next and Previous selected file.

You see, it's not that simple... :(
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LionTech wrote: You see, it's not that simple... :(
Yes, but I hope.... it's possible :-)
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The convention in MS applications is to use Ctrl+PgUp/PgDn to move through the Tabs.
The Windows XP help- and supportcenter has a section about windows hotkeys (dialog hotkeys):

Ctrl+Tab: Move forward through tab sheets.
Ctrl+Shift+Tab Move backward through tab sheets.

(translated from german Windows XP)
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The Windows XP help- and supportcenter has a section about windows hotkeys (dialog hotkeys):

Ctrl+Tab: Move forward through tab sheets.
Ctrl+Shift+Tab Move backward through tab sheets.
I said the convention not the documentation. :D

Excel and Visual Studio 2003 still use Ctrl-PgUp/PgDn.
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Font.wlx 0.07 - Font Lister plugin for Total Commander

http://users.pandora.be/liontech/wlxFont.zip

This is a lister plugin for Total Commander that allows you to
display the glyphs and some additional properties of a font
in the Lister or the QuickView window of Total Commander.

It has only been tested with Total Commander 5.51 on Windows 2000 and
Windows XP. It will not work with any older version of Windows.

2003-08-20 Version 0.07

Important: please remove the plugin and reinstall it because the detection
string of the plugin has changed to support TypeType font collections.

* Improved the keyboard interface of the plugin.
* Added support for TrueType Font Collections (TTC). Note that this means that the plugin detection string has been expanded again.
* Updated the Unicode block ranges and descriptions to be in line with Unicode 4.0.
* Small cosmetic changes to the Zoom window.
* Added an option to change the size of the Zoom window.
* Implemented the sorting of the Unicode blocks.
* Expanded the documentation a little.
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Thanks LionTech for the new version.
Especially for the keyboard support. Unfortunately I still can't move through the Glyphs tab with keyboard, you know what I mean: the combo boxes and list of chars.

There is also a bug when using Quick View not from the directory eg. "D:\Windows\Fonts" but when you use cm_OpenFonts and then Quick View. I get then info that it's "Unable to load "\\Fonts\times.ttf" and it tries to download it.
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Unfortunately I still can't move through the Glyphs tab with keyboard, you know what I mean: the combo boxes and list of chars.
That's because it's not implemented. TC captures the Tab key to switch between panels. You can't use the same key for 2 different functions. :(
There is also a bug when using Quick View not from the directory eg. "D:\Windows\Fonts" but when you use cm_OpenFonts and then Quick View. I get then info that it's "Unable to load "\\Fonts\times.ttf" and it tries to download it.
I know, that is a feature :wink: of TC: it passes the pseudo-name to the plugin instead of the full path to the shell folder. Maybe something for TC 5.6x?
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LionTech wrote: That's because it's not implemented. TC captures the Tab key to switch between panels. You can't use the same key for 2 different functions. :(
So maybe any other shortcut Ctrl+N or so... It's really important for people who hate using mouse and AFAIK there are a lot such people here :-)
LionTech, please :-)
LionTech wrote: Maybe something for TC 5.6x?
Rather TC 6.x ;-) (as I know there's not going to be next 5.x version)
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So maybe any other shortcut Ctrl+N or so... It's really important for people who hate using mouse and AFAIK there are a lot such people here
I just implemented Ctrl-Left and Ctrl-Right in 0.08.
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Nice, thanks.
So let's wait for it :-)
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Hello german speaking Font.wlx users,

I just put the german readme file for Font.wlx v007 online.
You can find it here: http://www.pete.onlinehome.de/fontwlx/readme_007_deu.htm

Die deutsche Readme fuer Font.wlx v007 ist verfuegbar.
Ihr findet sie hier: http://www.pete.onlinehome.de/fontwlx/readme_007_deu.htm

Enjoy
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Font.wlx 0.08 - Font Lister plugin for Total Commander

http://users.pandora.be/liontech/wlxFont.zip

This is a lister plugin for Total Commander that allows you to
display the glyphs and some additional properties of a font
in the Lister or the QuickView window of Total Commander.

It has only been tested with Total Commander 5.51 on Windows 2000 and
Windows XP. It will not work with any older version of Windows.

2003-08-23 Version 0.08

* Improved the keyboard interface of the plugin.
* Added support for translations (German and Dutch included).
* Added controls to change the size of the Glyphs and the Sample font.
* Implemented the Options page.
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2LionTech
Thanks for a new version. The plugin is still better and better :-)

But as always some suggestions (you know... the keyboard) :

- Options tab doesn't support Cltrl+Left/Right shortcuts
- Moreover - if you click with a mouse anywhere on the above tab - Ctrl+Tab and the others also don't work
- It's a pity I can't move with a keyboard through the list of glyphs. It would be nice if after making the glyphs tab and the glyphs list active - cursor stands on the first glyph and using arrows I could move through the list. After pressing eg. "Z" I could turn the Zoom on/off.

Once again, thanks for the changes :-)
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