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[KevinH]

Originally Posted by BeckyEbook

* Ad Plugins > Shortcuts
Focus should go sequentially from 1 to 10.

Why? It goes top to bottom in that layout which seems reasonable.

* Preferences > Spellcheck Dictionaries > User Dictionaries > (Table)
A similar problem to the plugin list.
When the focus goes to the table with the dictionaries it no longer goes from there with Tab.

I will look into that.

[DiapDealer]

Designer's Tab Order Editing Mode makes this pretty painless (and doesn't require physically editing the construction order of ui elements). We can't use Designer for MainWindow but it works fine for most of our other widgets/dialogs.

https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/designer-tab-order.html

[BeckyEbook]

Originally Posted by KevinH

Why? It goes top to bottom in that layout which seems reasonable.

I want to jump first Toolbar 1 (Plugins 1-5) and then Toolbar 2 (Plugins 6-10).

[KevinH]

* Preferences > Spellcheck Dictionaries > User Dictionaries > (Table)
A similar problem to the plugin list.
When the focus goes to the table with the dictionaries it no longer goes from there with Tab.

This should now be fixed in master.

[KevinH]

Originally Posted by DiapDealer

Designer's Tab Order Editing Mode makes this pretty painless (and doesn't require physically editing the construction order of ui elements). We can't use Designer for MainWindow but it works fine for most of our other widgets/dialogs.

https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/designer-tab-order.html

But I hate that damn thing!

I can change the order of creation of those combo widgets pretty easily by just editing the existing ui file (he said hopefully).

[DiapDealer]

Originally Posted by KevinH

But I hate that damn thing!

I can change the order of creation of those combo widgets pretty easily by just editing the existing ui file (he said hopefully).

I'm not fond of it myself. But this might be one of those times where I trust it just a teensy bit more than my cut & paste skills.

For the record... it looks like designer adds a "tabstops" block after the last closing widget tag with individual "tabstop" elements that contain the object name (in desired tab order).

[KevinH]

Originally Posted by BeckyEbook View Post
* Ad Plugins > Shortcuts
Focus should go sequentially from 1 to 10.

This fix has now been pushed to master.

[KevinH]

Originally Posted by DiapDealer

I'm not fond of it myself. But this might be one of those times where I trust it just a teensy bit more than my cut & paste skills.

Actually you are right, you do not have to move it in the ui but you do have to then add a:

<tabstops>
  <tabstop>UICLASSNAME1</tabstop>
  <tabstop>UICLASSNAME2</tabstop>
  .
  .
</tabstops>

list near the bottom of the ui file right before the <resources> tab.
And that is easily doable in an editor (once you use grep on "class=" to get a list of all of the widgets (skipping layouts)).

Saved!

[KevinH]

Originally Posted by Jaco

Hi again,

To do a table in HTML is tedious. I edit technical books and I have to code a lot of boring tables. I spend too much time.

I think it could be a good idea to add a button for programming HTML tables. I see examples here:

https://www.tablesgenerator.com/html_tables
https://www.codeguru.com/network/html-table-generator/
https://www.htmltables.io/

A button similar to List button would be very very useful.

Again, thanks in advance.

Use of tables in epubs of more than just a few columns or a few rows creates many issues for smaller e-readers like phone or tablet based ones.

So what I do is define a new Clip that will insert the elements of a *small* table
in CodeView that I can then easily expand/manipulate by copy and paste.

There are limits on table use in Kindles as well (or their were) so promoting their use may not be in the best interest of of the epub designer.

Here is the Clip called "table" that I created with in any text editor and then used Sigil's Clips Editor to create a table clip using paste so that I can add a simple table framework into my CodeView xhtml with a single click:

<table>
 <caption> Table Caption </caption>
 <thead>
   <tr> <!-- Headings -->
     <th> Column 1 Header </th>
     <th> Column 2 Header </th>
   </tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr> <!-- Row 1 -->
  <td> data1 </td>
  <td> data2 </td>
</tr>
<tr> <!-- Row 2 -->
  <td> data1 </td>
  <td> data2 </td>
</tr>
<tr> <!-- Row 3 -->
  <td> data1 </td>
  <td> data2 </td>
</tr>
</tbody>
<tfoot>
    <tr>
      <th> Footer1 </th>
      <th> Footer2 </th>
    </tr>
</tfoot>
</table>

You can just as easily create a Clip to paste into a CSS stylesheet when in CodeView to help style it. If I have to do a more elaborate table, you can create Clips that just are specific sub elements of a table and use them as needed.

Hope this helps.

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by Jaco

Hi again,

To do a table in HTML is tedious. I edit technical books and I have to code a lot of boring tables. I spend too much time.

I have about 6 table templates with their associated CSS saved in a text file and just copy/paste as needed.

[BeckyEbook]

1. Preserences > Keyboard Shortcuts
Shortcut field is focus trap for keyboard only users.
The Tab or Shift+Tab keys either do nothing or the tab is inserted into the field when trying to assign.

2. MetaData Editor
Current focus order on the buttons: Add Metadata, Remove, Add Property.

3. Generate Table of Contents
No focus for "Select headings…"

[KevinH]

Originally Posted by BeckyEbook

1. Preserences > Keyboard Shortcuts
Shortcut field is focus trap for keyboard only users.
The Tab or Shift+Tab keys either do nothing or the tab is inserted into the field when trying to assign.

Not much I can do here. Since both Tab and Shift are valid shortcut keys especially when used with other modifiers. All I can do is remove it from the tab to shift focus chain by setting its focusPolicy() to Qt::ClickFocus

2. MetaData Editor
Current focus order on the buttons: Add Metadata, Remove, Add Property.

This should now be fixed in master.

3. Generate Table of Contents
No focus for "Select headings…"

It is designed that way. It is intentionally set in the HeadingSelector.ui to be Qt::ClickFocus since you must actually activate it from a pulldown that only works in one direction (or sequence).

I will look into how if we can change that combobox widget in some way to make things work. They will probably take a while.

[BeckyEbook]

Ad Shortcuts.

In Windows, virtually all keyboard shortcuts with the Tab key are managed by the system. It is therefore practically impossible to assign any shortcut with a tabulator.

Tab – Move forward through options.
Shift+Tab – Move back through options.
Alt+Tab – Switch between open apps.
Ctrl+Tab – Move to the next tab.
Ctrl+Shift+Tab – Move to the previous tab.
Ctrl+Alt+Tab – Use the arrow keys to switch between all open apps.
Windows_logo_key+Tab – Open Task view.

But of course, I understand that in a multi-platform application, you have to make compromises.

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by BeckyEbook

* Ad Plugins > Shortcuts
Focus should go sequentially from 1 to 10.

Originally Posted by KevinH

Why? It goes top to bottom in that layout which seems reasonable.

Originally Posted by BeckyEbook

I want to jump first Toolbar 1 (Plugins 1-5) and then Toolbar 2 (Plugins 6-10).

De-facto standard for Tab order is left→right, top→bottom.

However, that dialogue lacks anything to indicate that the two vertical lists pertain to two different toolbars, if the lists had a heading (e.g. "Plugin toolbar 1" and "Plugin toolbar 2") Becky's preferred Tab order makes sense.

The name of the Tab-Panel "Shortcuts' is confusing, most people would assume it refers to assigning keyboard shortcuts to run plugins, but it's about assigning plugins to toolbar buttons.

Keyboard shortcut assignment to run plugins is where it belongs in Preferences→Keyboard shortcuts- although it lacks any clue as to what plugins are installed, viz:



Perhaps the original intent was to have the toolbar button AND the keyboard shortcuts assignments on that "Shortcut" tab panel.

BR

[KevinH]

The shortcuts for those 10 assigned plugins are set in the Shortcut Manager. So by assigning plugins to those positions also assigns whatever shortcut you previoused assigned or are going to assign.

So 6 of of one vs half dozen of another.