Autogeneration of shortcut keys or html accesskeys from field captions

vaadin-bot commented 16 years ago

Originally by @mstahv

After some discussions with Magi I'm confident that Toolkit should have special syntax in field captions for automatic generation of shortcut keys.

A good example of a similar functionality can be found in QT: QPushButton p( "&Exit", parent ); (E is used as access key)

See more detailed info http://www.mathematik.uni-ulm.de/help/qt-2.3.1/qaccel.html

This could simplify usage of shortcuts in many places and allow localization of access keys.

Implementation could either use html:s accesskey system or it could be built as a wrapper around current server side ShortcutActions.

Imported from https://dev.vaadin.com/ issue #1962

vaadin-bot commented 14 years ago

Originally by @Artur-

After the recent short cut key improvements it should be really easy to implement.

See also #4521

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bennewi commented 3 years ago

This is a standard feature of most desktop applications, which when moving to web with Vaadin will want to preserve both shortcuts and accelerators for the convenience of the users.

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Autogeneration of shortcut keys or html accesskeys from field captions #523