[Gambas-user] Keystroke recorder for the IDE :)

[Jussi Lahtinen]

I have never used the feature either, but that actually looked quite handy.
I guess with little practice it will be useful.


Jussi

On Sat, May 6, 2023 at 6:18 PM Bruce Steers <bsteers4 at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Sat, 6 May 2023 at 11:47, Benoit Minisini <
> benoit.minisini at gambas-basic.org> wrote:
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>> Le 03/05/2023 à 13:31, Bruce Steers a écrit :
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>> > Is this not anything of interest to you Ben?
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>> Personnally I have never used a macro recorder. Do you have some example
>> of what you used it for?
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> It can be very useful for various things, if you have any repetitive
> keyboard task to do.
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> An example here where i use it to quickly set some Key variables from
> their Property definitions.
> Normally each line would have to be manually written. with the recorder I
> can copy-n-paste the property definitions, start the recorder, then edit
> one line and position to the next. then play the macro for all the other
> lines.
> https://youtu.be/LC-8qEMFGsA
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> I also gave a little explanation of it's usefulness and posted an example
> video on the gambas.one forum where i quickly change a long list of
> Key.Code values into a Collection.
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> I think both clips show how a feature like this has some potential to be
> very handy.
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> Other uses could be in converting snippets of code from another languages
> into gambas.
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>> Anyway, I think that being able to forge key or mouse events would be
>> helpful for such a feature.
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> Yes very much so. then all the TextEditor KeyPress events would not need
> to be copied and converted (and thought about if changes are made)
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>> I will think about that.
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> Many thanks kind sir :)
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> I have a couple of other issues at present.
> I have gb.form.editor imported to my text editor program (the 1st clip
> above) and i also have incorporated it into the IDE but it's not so good.
> They both use Observer.class to observe the texteditor control.
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> In both uses the F3 keypress cannot be detected, i think the menu shortcut
> is swallowing it up.  F3 is super useful with macros as you may often make
> the last keystroke to be a search for the next occurrence of your edit.
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> It seems just with the IDE Ctrl-C, V, X presses are also not detected,
> but they are in my program.
> I assume again a menu shortcut is hiding the event somehow so
> TextEditor_KeyPress() does not get it.
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> I need to workaround detecting the missing keypress events somehow. (if at
> all possible)
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> Much respect
> BruceS
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>> Regards,
>> --
>> Benoît Minisini.
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