New Extension: QuickKeys

Mark

Check out your Forum Preferences. There is a new option at the bottom to enable quickkeys.

lech

oh hell yeah!

lech

what did you make the quick key for settings?

jonezy

what are zzzzzzzzz quick keys then sir?

jonezy

oh colour me stupid... the underlined letters in the tabs.

lech

alt+D! :D

jonezy

me = alt+dumbass

lech

lol@jonezy

Denied

crtl-letter for mac users.

Mark

the other quick key that you can't see (because the hyperlink is underlined already) is ALT+n for a new discussion.

lech

ahh, very nice indeed. I suppose you could also do all sorts of things with this to highlight or underline in whatever way you wish :)

Mark

Yeah - I just added some new codes to the language file for the quickkeys, so you can edit it however you want - I just put some <u> tags in there.

lech

ahh, good deal, man. :D

dom

I like using: <a href="..."><strong><span title="Accesskey: d">D</span></strong>iscussions<a>
And then applying styles like underlining via the CSS

edit // Although I can see an advantage of using <u>: It highlights it even when CSS is off.

Mark

Well, that's a preference. You can change the english.php file to say whatever you want :)

dwclifton

The element, per HTML 4.01, is deprecated, but allowed in XHTML transitional. In strict and beyond, it is removed.

The preferred method of doing this is with an inline element, such as:

Key

and CSS:

.ul {  text-decoration: underline; }

~d

unipus

huh, this extension isn't working on my site. it works here. I tried disabling it, re-enabling it, logging out, logging back in. no joy.

Mark

unipus: You've got to go to your account preferences and turn it on after it's been enabled.

unipus

Ahhaaaaa. Something else to add to the docs though! Probably should be a note in the extension description, that it works on a per-user basis. Good implementation, though.

alley

To be multilingual compatible I modified this script a little so that it always uses the first usable letter in a word. I found it usefull, if others find think so too, here's my code:


<?php
/*
Extension Name: Quick Keys
Extension Url: http://lussumo.com/docs/
Description: Allows users to use ALT+[KeyCode] to access various pages of Vanilla.
Version: 1.0
Author: Mark O'Sullivan
Author Url: http://www.markosullivan.ca/

Copyright 2003 - 2005 Mark O'Sullivan
This file is part of Vanilla.
Vanilla is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
Vanilla is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with Vanilla; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
The latest source code for Vanilla is available at www.lussumo.com
Contact Mark O'Sullivan at mark [at] lussumo [dot] com

You should cut & paste these language definitions into your
conf/your_language.php file (replace "your_language" with your chosen language,
of course):
*/
$Context->Dictionary['MenuOptions'] = 'Menu Options';
$Context->Dictionary['UseQuickKeys'] = 'Use quick-keys to access common forum pages';

if (in_array($Context->SelfUrl, array('account.php', 'categories.php', 'comments.php', 'index.php', 'post.php', 'search.php', 'settings.php')) && $Context->Session->UserID > 0) {
$usedkeys = array();
if (@$Menu && @$Context->Session->User) {
if ($Context->Session->User->Preference('UseQuickKeys')) {
foreach ($Menu->Tabs as $key => $tab)
{
for ($i=0;$iTabs[$key]['Text'] = substr($tab['Text'], 0, $i).''.substr($tab['Text'], $i, $i+1).''.substr($tab['Text'], $i+1);
$Menu->Tabs[$key]['Attributes'] = 'accesskey="'.$char.'"';
break;
}
}
}

//$Menu->AddTab($Context->GetDefinition('Account_QuickKey'), 'account', GetUrl($Configuration, 'account.php'), 'accesskey=\'a\'');
// Add a hidden tab
$text = $Context->GetDefinition('StartANewDiscussion');
for ($i=0;$iContext->Dictionary['StartANewDiscussion_accesskey'] = substr($text, 0, $i).''.substr($text, $i, $i+1).''.substr($text, $i+1); break; } } $Menu->AddTab($Panel->Context->Dictionary['StartANewDiscussion_accesskey'], 'post', GetUrl($Configuration, 'post.php', 'category/', 'CategoryID', ForceIncomingInt('CategoryID',0)), 'accesskey="'.$char.'" class="Invisible"'); // alter the start a new discussion button in the panel function Panel_AlterStartDefinition(&$Panel) { $Panel->Context->Dictionary['StartANewDiscussion'] = $Panel->Context->Dictionary['StartANewDiscussion_accesskey']; } $Context->AddToDelegate('Panel', 'PreRender', 'Panel_AlterStartDefinition'); } } } // Add the QuickKeys setting to the forum preferences form if ($Context->SelfUrl == 'account.php' && $Context->Session->UserID > 0) { $PostBackAction = ForceIncomingString('PostBackAction', ''); if ($PostBackAction == 'Functionality') { function PreferencesForm_AddQuickKeysPreference(&$PreferencesForm) { $PreferencesForm->AddPreference('MenuOptions', 'UseQuickKeys', 'UseQuickKeys', 1); } $Context->AddToDelegate('PreferencesForm', 'Constructor', 'PreferencesForm_AddQuickKeysPreference'); } } ?>

alley

Though I missed the comments about the <u> tag... Should be replaced again then I guess.