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Community page to suggest, collect, complete key bindings for SwingX components.
Goal
All well-behaved GUI must be usable by both mouse and keyboard gestures. Swing comes with a high-level support for the latter by key bindings (TODO: add link to tutorial) and the core components make ample use of it. So in principle it is easy to register new key strokes for new functionality in SwingX. The problem is, to find appropriate keys: sources might be equivalent functionality in real-world applications, OS-specific UI-guidelines, usability studies ... a task for many open eyes, that is you as part of the SwingX community. In the end, we want to have a list of bindings for each SwingX component, covering every functional aspect in all OSs.
Mechanics
Not much formality: my vision is to have one section per component (preferably alphabetically ordered) and maybe a table per component listing all the functions that need to be bound in one column and key proposal with links to examples in the other. Everybody reading this is invited to contribute. If you disagree with what's already there, add your comment, counter-proposal. If there's need for discussion, we'll do it in the forum. Happy hunting!
Question do we need separate bindings for components used in a TableCellEditor context?
Reference
A good starting point for finding suitable key bindings would be to look into the various platform Human interface guidelines. Direct links for useful keyboard navigation references include:
Suggestions
JXDatePicker
JXTable
| Functions | Key Strokes | Context |
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| Search/Find | defined by SearchFactory getFindAccelerator, OS specific ctrl-f or cmd-f (for mac) | when ancestor of focused |
| Open ColumnControl | | |
| Move Column | | |
| Resize Column | | |
| Sort Column | | |
| Hide Column | | |
JXTaskPane
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