Make it possible to switch between frames using keyboard shortcuts

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Why is this feature needed?
bpbible has a shortcut for just about anything, except for switching to a
frame. Which is a tad frustrating. And the layout could be complex, with
lots of frames (Bible, Commentary, Dictionary, Versions), given the nature
of the application. So it's not just one frame at a time, and users need to
switch.

What problem will it solve?
Users who prefer keyboard wouldn't have to grab the mouse and focus the
right frame before typing a keyboard shortcut. Time-saving.

Are you aware of any programs that have this feature or a similar feature?
How about two-panel file managers as an example? Midnight Commander or
Total Commander on Windows let you use TAB to switch between the two panels
(read "frames"). How about using TAB to cycle through all visible frames?
Or CTRL-TAB?

Maybe even CTRL-F1, CTRL-F2, CTRL-F3, etc. to pick a frame from top to
bottom, left to right?

Original issue reported on code.google.com by war...@gmail.com on 19 Feb 2010 at 12:11

A good idea. I'm not sure how well tab would work, since it would interfere with standard tabbing to navigate between controls, but Ctrl-Tab might be good. I don't think Ctrl-F1 - Ctrl-Fn would work as well because you would need to calculate which key you needed to use to switch to a particular frame, and as well as that if you reordered your windows you would no longer have a consistent shortcut to any particular window. Possibly better would be to have key shortcuts assigned to particular frames (e.g. Ctrl-Shift-B goes to Bible), but this wouldn't work so well if we are ever able to have multiple Bibles open at a time, and the keyboard shortcut space is fairly small as it is and a lot of potential shortcuts have already been taken. I'll have a think about it sometime.

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