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cjcliffe
Keyboard/Mouse Improvements (March 2018)
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Numpad Change Frequency Allow numeric keypad (numpad) frequency inputs. Currently only top-row numbers can change frequency. (For the longest time I thought that keyboard frequency entry was broken since I always use the numpad).
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Push-and-Hold Frequency increase/decrease scrolling Allow holding down mouse on frequency digit up/down to continue rolling digit after moment delay. Repeat rate of 0.1s or 10 digits per second should suffice. (I wrote a rapid-fire mouse macro to simulate this behavior and it's a wonderful interface enhancement!)
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Zero-out Frequency Digits to the right Some sort of keyboard, mouse, or keyboard-mouse combo to zero out frequency digits on-and-to-the-right of the currently hovered or clicked frequency digit position. For example, Alt+LeftClick or MiddleClick or the number zero 0.
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DEL key delete bookmarks / active frequencies When the Bookmarks panel has keyboard focus, the Delete key should delete the selected item from Active, Bookmarks, Recents, etc. This panel could use more keyboard love in general (plus a remove-all button for parent groups).
@a-raccoon thanks for the suggestions.
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I thought Numpad inputs were working but we will have to investigate.
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Push and hold frequency increase/decrease is already kinda implemented; though you have to click and drag the digit LEFT/RIGHT instead of holding UP/DOWN and dragging further increases the speed. I'm not sure I could logically keep the left/right and add the up/down as well without causing conflicts but it was an early feature from before individual digits were clickable that's been carried forward -- so it might be up for review.
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Zeroing the digits to the right might be useful; I think we should experiment with that.
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DEL key on the bookmarks might be a good option; I think i would still have the pop-up dialog to confirm groups/bookmarks though. Note that there's already a "Remove Group" button if you select the group that will remove the group and all the bookmarks within it.
Numpad inputs would probably have to use case 'WXK_NUMPAD0': to case 'WXK_NUMPAD9': per reference wxpython at this code block, and handle the string-to-num conversion by grabbing the right-most string character.
https://github.com/cjcliffe/CubicSDR/blob/7fb66b69981a5b81734616982dfe44735e3813f5/src/AppFrame.cpp#L2766-L2778