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IDE: Menu-handling in Windows is strange #977

Closed GoogleCodeExporter closed 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
What steps will reproduce the problem?
1.  Press Alt-Tab to switch to another app, then Alt-tab back
2.  Or try to press Alt-F

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
1. Alt-Tabbing twice to switch away, then back, to Arduino Studio leaves you in 
the application menu and you have to press Alt or Escape to get back to the 
editor.  
2. Support the normal Windows keyboard shortcuts for opening up the menus.  Is 
this really hard to do for multi-target programs?  Isn't there something 
similar in Linux GUIs?

What version of the Arduino software are you using? On what operating
system?  Which Arduino board are you using?
1.0.1 on Windows XP

Please provide any additional information below.
Things like Alt-F/A for save as, Alt-F/S for save,  and Alt-F/O for open are so 
universally supported in Windows apps that it's very distracting when they 
don't work.  Usually, first-letters of menu item names automatically work w/o 
any extra effort...

Thanks for considering.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by AgentFri...@gmail.com on 7 Jul 2012 at 11:51

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Oh yeah, the really annoying thing is that the keystroke Alt-F, aside from not 
opening the file menu, actually inserts an 'f' at the cursor.

Original comment by AgentFri...@gmail.com on 7 Jul 2012 at 11:54

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
I'm happy to accept patches that make the IDE behave more like other / native 
applications on Windows, especially if they're fairly easy to understand (and 
so it's clear that they don't mess up the behavior on other operating systems). 
 I'd recommend looking at Processing to see if they've fixed this problem.  If 
so, it would be great to use their code / fix in Arduino as well.

Original comment by dmel...@gmail.com on 15 Jul 2012 at 1:38

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
https://github.com/arduino/Arduino/issues/977#issuecomment-109890436

Original comment by federico...@gmail.com on 8 Jun 2015 at 7:26