Add keyboard shortcuts to Filer (like QuickFiler?)
Martin Avison (27) 1491 posts |
Add QuickFiler type of facilities to the Filer, so QuickFiler (which is a rather nasty bodge, although it does work well) is no longer required. QuickFiler is a utility which allows you to use many standard keyboard shortcut keys in conjunction with the RISC OS Filer, which currently is totally mouse and menu-driven. A simple click in a Filer display would enables it to gain the input focus. Thereafter there are many keyboard shortcuts available for Filer facilities which would normally require a menu traversal. The code to do this is probably fairly simple – QuickFiler is more complicated because it needs to do things through filters, and check it is patching the correct version of the filer. Discussion will no doubt be required on at least … - which shortcuts to include. I would suggest starting from the QF ones. - whether to make optional, controlled by Configuration. - whether to mimic RISC OS 6, rather than QuickFiler. |
Andrew Hodgkinson (6) 465 posts |
The first step would be to list the shortcuts provided in RISC OS 6 alongside the shortcuts provided in QuickFiler. Then we can consider which to use on a case by case basis. |
Martin Avison (27) 1491 posts |
I can easily supply the normal QuickFiler ones – see below. Can anyone else supply the RO6 ones?
Main Filer menu
Select all ........... Ctrl-A Clear selection ...... Ctrl-Z New directory ........ Ctrl-D New directory ........ Ins Open parent .......... Ctrl-B Set directory ........ TabDisplay menu Large icons .......... F2 Small icons .......... F3 Full info ............ F4 Sort by name ......... Shift-F1 Sort by type ......... Shift-F2 Sort by size ......... Shift-F3 Sort by date ......... Shift-F4File menu (on objects selected) Copy ................. Ctrl-C Rename ............... Ctrl-R Delete ............... Ctrl-X Delete ............... Del Count ................ Ctrl-N Help ................. Ctrl-H Help ................. F1 Info ................. Ctrl-I Find ................. Ctrl-F Set type ............. Ctrl-T Stamp ................ Ctrl-SAccess menu (on objects selected) Protected ............ Ctrl-F5 Unprotected .......... Ctrl-F6 Public ............... Ctrl-F7 Private .............. Ctrl-F8 Access details ....... Ctrl-EOptions menu Confirm all .......... F5 Confirm all Off ...... Shift-F5 Verbose .............. F6 Verbose Off .......... Shift-F6 Force ................ F7 Force Off ............ Shift-F7 Newer ................ F8 Newer Off ............ Shift-F8 Confirm deletes ...... F9 Confirm deletes Off .. Shift-F9 Faster ............... F10 Faster Off ........... Shift-F10Miscellaneous Run .................. Return Close Window ......... Ctrl-F2 Scroll Up ............ Up Scroll to Top ........ Ctrl-Up Scroll to Top ........ Home Scroll Up Small ...... Ctrl-Shift-Up Scroll Down .......... Dn Scroll to Bottom ..... Ctrl-Dn Scroll to Bottom ..... End Scroll Down Small .... Ctrl-Shift-Dn Page Up .............. PgUp Page Down ............ PgDn Refresh Filer ........ F11 |
Trevor Johnson (329) 1645 posts |
Source (paragraph text rephrased to protect copyright of original text):
RISC OS 6.14 (01 Dec 2008) Tutorials/UserGuide/guide/chap07.htm#L0099 Keyboard shortcutsAs the RO6 Filer can now display column layout or the normal row layout, some keyboard shortcuts have alternate behaviour depending on which view layout is active. Such shortcuts are distinguished by use of “or”. ^Insert.... Toggle viewer retention behaviour (see -RetainViewer) Tab........ Move the focus to the next viewer Shift-Tab.. Move the focus to the previous viewer ^.......... Open current viewers parent with focus $.......... Open current viewers root with focus Page Up.... Move one window full up, or one window full right Page Down.. Move one window full down, or one window full left Up......... Move the highlight up one Down....... Move the highlight down one Left....... Move the highlight left one Right...... Move the highlight right one ^Up........ Move the highlight to the first object, or top of column ^Down...... Move the highlight to the last object, or bottom of column ^Left...... Move the highlight to the left of row, or to the first object ^Right..... Move the highlight to the right of row, or to the last object For use in building a selection of files:^[Shift]-A...... Select all objects in the current viewer ^[Shift]-Z...... Clear the current selection ^[Shift]-Space.. Toggle the selection of the highlight object ^Shift-Tab...... Swap active selection end points ^Shift-Left..... Toggle select left one object, or left up one column ^Shift-Right.... Toggle select right one object, or right down one column ^Shift-Up....... Toggle select left up one row, or up one object ^Shift-Down..... Toggle select right down one row, or down one object For actions previously only possible with the mouse and menus:Escape........ Cancel drag or key selection Return........ Perform the 'run' action on selected object(s) in current viewer, either running files or opening directories Shift-Return.. Perform alternate action on the selected object(s): Load files into a text editor Close open directories, or open a new directory Open applications Insert........ Create a new directory (path) in the current viewer Delete........ Delete selected object(s) after confirmation Shift-Delete.. Delete selected object(s) ^T............ Timestamp selected object(s) in current viewer F1............ Load help for selected application (if available) Shift-F1...... Info on selected object F2............ Force selected image(s) to be [re-]thumbnailed (Thumbnail mode only). ^F2........... Close the current viewer F3............ Copy selected object in current viewer Shift-F3...... Rename selected object(s) ^F3........... Set type of selected object(s) ^Shift-F3..... Set access for selected object(s) F4............ Find object within selected object(s) in current viewer F5............ Refresh the current viewer F6............ Cycle through sort orders for the current viewer Shift-F6...... Reverse cycle through sort orders ^F6........... Toggle reverse sort order F7............ Cycle through display formats for the current viewer Shift-F7...... Reverse cycle through display formats ^F7........... Toggle display orientation F10........... Count selected object(s) in current viewer F11........... Set work directory to the current viewer ^F11.......... Share selected directory Alphanumeric keys: These move the highlight through the list as the name is progressively typed. The break for typing the name of the object is 1 second, with any keys pressed after this initiating a new search. NotesIt is strongly recommended that Recyclone is used with key shortcuts, although some limited protection has been added to the Delete key action.
Refresh (F5) now also re-evaluates -AutoThumb ratio (if enabled) forcing images which were previously too big to be re-tried (for thumbnail display). For ‘sort by name’ search as you type will move to the nearest object. For other sort types, an exact match must be found before the highlight will move. Space must be pressed twice if you wish to search for an object name that starts with a Space character (not required for a Space within a name). A sub-path can now be specified in the ‘new directory’, ‘copy as’, and ‘rename’ writables. If it does not already exist, a sub-path is created (relative to the viewer directory), with an error being raised if any part already exists but is not a directory. |
David Thomas (43) 72 posts |
I object to QuickFiler being called a nasty bodge. ;-) |