It is useful to be able to invoke menu commands directly from the keyboard. The Thot toolkit provides a facility that lets user accomplish this by means of an application keyboard shortcuts file. This file defines a list of associations between a keyboard sequence and the corresponding invoked command.
The syntax used to define an association is:
Directive = KeySeq ':' IdentCommand ;
KeysSeq = KeySet [ ',' KeySet ] ;
KeySet = [ Modifier ] [ 'Shift' ] Key ;
Key = '<Key>' KeyValue / '<Key>' SpecialKey ;
Modifier = 'Ctrl' / 'Alt' / 'Meta' ;
KeyValue = 'a' / 'b' / ... ;
SpecialKey = 'Escape' / 'Delete' / 'Space' / 'BackSpace' /
'Enter' / 'Up' / 'Down' / 'Left' / 'Right' /
'Home' / 'End' / 'F1' / ... / 'L1' / ... / 'R1' / ... ;
IdentCommand = 'TtcInsertChar(' Char ')' / NAME '()' ;
Char = KeyValue / OctalValue ; OctalValue = '\' NUMBER ;
For an example, see the standard files amaya.keyboard (for
Unix platforms) and amaya.kb (for Windows platforms), which are
by default located in the directory Amaya/config.
The list of available commands is:
NextLinkOrFormElement.
PreviousLinkOrFormElement.
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