Menu press for File > Open recent
Dear Xara...
Some user are limited in the ability to operate a mouse and rely on keypresses.
A small UI improvement for File > Open recent menu keypresses:
As there is the setting in XDPX to have up to 20 recent files listed, to open the second requires Alt-F-R-2-Enter & the 20th is Alt-F-R-2-0.
Suggestion - If you change the 20th to trigger on the zero, you have Alt-F-R-0 and the second then shortens to Alt-F-R-2.
The Recent files value is set in Utilities > Options > General > Recent files.
Bug - If you input a number outside 1 to 20, a Warning pop-up appears. The Help buttons open the Help contents file into the Help menu page, which is meaningless in this context; it should open at Index: Recent files.
Acorn
Re: Menu press for File > Open recent
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Acorn
... If you change the 20th to trigger on the zero, you have Alt-F-R-0 and the second then shortens to Alt-F-R-2.
Based on that, how would you trigger the 10th file?
Re: Menu press for File > Open recent
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ss-kalm
Based on that, how would you trigger the 10th file?
Keith, Alt-F-R-1-Enter gets you the tenth; Alt-F-R-Enter, the first.
Acorn
Re: Menu press for File > Open recent
I must admit, that I'm not following your numbering logic. Which by extension would make it a lot more awkward even though you save a couple of keystrokes. There's little point saving a couple of keystrokes, if you open the wrong file and have to do it all again.
Re: Menu press for File > Open recent
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Originally Posted by
ss-kalm
I must admit, that I'm not following your numbering logic. Which by extension would make it a lot more awkward even though you save a couple of keystrokes. There's little point saving a couple of keystrokes, if you open the wrong file and have to do it all again.
It is not my numbering logic, it is how MS Windows works but also how Xara has applied it. The number one is overloaded as after Alt-F-R, a repeated press of 1 will cycle round (1, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 15,16, 17, 18, 19). as Xara has overloaded 2 and 20 needlessly, also get a mini-cycle of (2, 20). Zero is not used at all so by replace the two in twenty with the zero, you make the saving. You then balance out the keypresses to at most five.I should have said the tenth (also) works with Alt-F-R-1-0 and the twentieth is Alt-F-R-0. (1, 2, [2]0) require the Enter key, 3-19 just the digits.
Acorn
