No keyboard shortcut for "Edit properties"

[AM909]

In v3738, there are keyboard shortcuts for "Add properties" and "Delete properties" that link to the relevant actions in the Properties pane.

There is no keyboard shortcut for "Edit properties", but there should be.

[simon04]

What is the scheme of the current shortcuts ("mnemonics")?

• Add: [Alt]+[B]
• Delete: [Alt]+[Q]

As logical consequence, what would be the key for Edit?

Should we somewhere make visible these shortcuts for the user?

[stoecker]

Aren't they visible in mouseover tooltip?

[simon04]

No, at least not under Linux (cf. screenshot).

[skyper]

By the way: At least in German "add tag" and "change tag" window have both the header "Werte ändern ?" (change values ?).

Should be "Wert(e) hinzufügen" (add value(s)) for "add tag".

[skyper]

Replying to skyper:

By the way: At least in German "add tag" and "change tag" window have both the header "Werte ändern ?" (change values ?).

Should be "Wert(e) hinzufügen" (add value(s)) for "add tag".

The header is wrong in English, too. I have opened ticket #6674.

[simon04]

What about changing the mnemonics to the following?

• [Alt]+[A]: Add
• [Alt]+[S]: Edit
• [Alt]+[D] Delete

These keys are easily accessible on a QWERTY keyboard and quite similar to the editing shortcuts [A], [S], [D].

[simon04]

In [4500/josm]:

fix #5781 - change mnemonics of {add,edit,delete} property to alt+{a,s,d}, of audio menu to alt+u

[simon04]

Lets test it … :-)

[skyper]

Replying to simon04:

Lets test it … :-)

Thanks, do only work if the mouse is over the property window. Was this intended ?

One more request:

• Would be nice, if the shortcuts are shown in the mouseover tooltip. Right now you have to know them and in my case they where even changed caused by silent conflicts.

Repository Root: http://josm.openstreetmap.de/svn
Build-Date: 2011-10-10 01:31:57
Last Changed Author: stoecker
Revision: 4512
Repository UUID: 0c6e7542-c601-0410-84e7-c038aed88b3b
URL: http://josm.openstreetmap.de/svn/trunk
Last Changed Date: 2011-10-10 00:16:18 +0200 (Mon, 10 Oct 2011)
Last Changed Rev: 4512

Identification: JOSM/1.5 (4512 de)
Memory Usage: 105 MB / 881 MB (22 MB allocated, but free)
Java version: 1.6.0_20, Sun Microsystems Inc., OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM
Operating system: Linux

[skyper]

#6954 is probably the reason that the short cuts do not work.

Remains the tooltip.

[olejorgenb]

Shortcut description in tooltips is usually handled in JosmAction. The new inner classes for add/edit/delete extends vanilla AbstractAction. If there's a reason they shouldn't be JosmActions, it seems we're supposed to use:

putValue(SHORT_DESCRIPTION, Main.platform.makeTooltip(normalDescription, shortcut));

[simon04]

In [4518/josm]:

fix #5781 - display mnemonics of {add,edit,delete} of properties dialog

[simon04]

Replying to olejorgenb:

Shortcut description in tooltips is usually handled in JosmAction.

Thanks for pointing that out.

[olejorgenb]

In [4518/josm]

That probably fixes #6954 since the problem was a missing call to Main.registerActionShortcut (the josm action does this)

[olejorgenb]

One more thing: (A bit OT I guess)

Would it make sense to bind the up/down keys to move the active/selected property in the sidedialog?

I'm attaching a patch that sets the focus to the property table after a tag has been added. This binds the arrowkeys "temporary" after adding a tag. (Enter key -> add property as before, although it make more sense to bind it to "edit", or not bind it at all).

This approach is probably not robust though. The table might shadow keys we use for other actions, and this is platform dependent.

[xeen]

The keyboard shortcuts are not unregistered correctly when the MapFrame is destroyed:

Keystroke alt pressed A is already assigned to org.openstreetmap.josm.gui.dialogs.properties.PropertiesDialog$AddAction@499ce8f3, will be overridden by org.openstreetmap.josm.gui.dialogs.properties.PropertiesDialog$AddAction@20ab085
Keystroke alt pressed S is already assigned to org.openstreetmap.josm.gui.dialogs.properties.PropertiesDialog$EditAction@996c8c2, will be overridden by org.openstreetmap.josm.gui.dialogs.properties.PropertiesDialog$EditAction@1c7783ea
Keystroke alt pressed D is already assigned to org.openstreetmap.josm.gui.dialogs.properties.PropertiesDialog$DeleteAction@db5eaed, will be overridden by org.openstreetmap.josm.gui.dialogs.properties.PropertiesDialog$DeleteAction@1b4b07df

STR:

• create new layer
• destroy the layer
• create new layer

[simon04]

Replying to xeen:

The keyboard shortcuts are not unregistered correctly when the MapFrame is destroyed:

Keystroke alt pressed A is already assigned to org.openstreetmap.josm.gui.dialogs.properties.PropertiesDialog$AddAction@499ce8f3, will be overridden by org.openstreetmap.josm.gui.dialogs.properties.PropertiesDialog$AddAction@20ab085
Keystroke alt pressed S is already assigned to org.openstreetmap.josm.gui.dialogs.properties.PropertiesDialog$EditAction@996c8c2, will be overridden by org.openstreetmap.josm.gui.dialogs.properties.PropertiesDialog$EditAction@1c7783ea
Keystroke alt pressed D is already assigned to org.openstreetmap.josm.gui.dialogs.properties.PropertiesDialog$DeleteAction@db5eaed, will be overridden by org.openstreetmap.josm.gui.dialogs.properties.PropertiesDialog$DeleteAction@1b4b07df

attachment:5781-unregister.patch​ should fix. Is there a better solution?

[simon04]

In [4526/josm]:

see #5781 - unregister keyboard shortcuts of properties dialog