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Hi all,

I have been trying to get some key combinations as "hotkeys" for a simple editor I have written with HW 6 and MUIRoyale. It kind of works, but it would be great if I could use the keyboard for things like Copy and Paste.

I have a MUI toolbar gadget with a Copy and Paste button (they work fine) but would like a keyboard shortcut tfor the buttons. Using the _C and _P does not work because there is a active MUI Editor gadget.

I found -cxkey hotkey but I have no idea how to get it to work (not running form console)

Does anyone have a simple example of using keyboard sortcut (Hotkeys) like control c to copy and control v to paste.

thanks
Leo

CXKEY is for installing a hotkey combination for the commodities system, so that's nothing that could help you here. The Toolbar.hws example in Examples/External shows how to use hotkeys (i.e. by using an underscore character in the button text) but I think you've already seen that. The problem is that MUI is designed in a way that only the active gadget receives keyboard events, i.e. while the text editor gadget has the focus, only the text editor will receive keyboard events. That's why the toolbar hotkeys don't work at that time. I'm afraid there's nothing you can do against this...

But specially for Copy and Paste, you can react on those hotkey-events, as you can put those things into menus.
If you for examplehave a Menu Edit with Menupoints Cut/Copy and Paste in it, you simply give them a shortcut-tag in the xml-file and your editor should react on it.

Example of an menu-entry:
<item id="cut" shortcut=\"x\" notify=\"selected\">"Cut"</item>")

Your Program should than react on the RAmiga_c key.
Or did I completely missunderstand the question???

Best regards

George