cubiq/kbedit

Keyboard Designer

kbedit's Issues

Pan using middle mouse

Since panning is already implemented, it should be possible to pan with middle mouse. (Think Inkscape.)

Intelligent key positioning for staggered rows

Currently, all new keys are snapped to the major (1u) grid. Support for stagger is poor, as you can't ever insert keys in their correction locations on most rows.

Worse, the program allows for a key to be inserted directly on top of another key, so that the first key vanishes.

One way to work around this is to detect overlap and insert the new key directly to its right. That way, all you need to do for a whole row of keys that are offset by stagger, is draw the large key (e.g. ctrl/caps lock), point at it, and press 1 repeatedly: all the remaining keys will be added to the next available space to the right of the key under the mouse cursor.

Pan and drag at once = weird

Use ctrl to pan while dragging a key -- weird! Not sure this should be a permitted action :)

Repeat last insertion with R key

Press 'R' to insert a new key with the same specification as the last inserted key (size and colour but not legend).

Not sure if this should be immediately to its right (for adding bottom row mods) or at the mouse cursor location.

Multiple-select should use ctrl

Selecting multiple keys requires shift. Multiple-select should be ctrl or cmd; shift typically indicates range selection, and ctrl/cmd/adjust indicates discrete selection. Shift-click would for example be used to select a whole row of keys, although in kbedit it's going to be tricky to define a 100% predictable behaviour for range selection.

Also, ctrl+click should toggle selection (currently shift-click can only select, not deselect)

Keyboard case object

For preview and PNG/SVG export purposes, there should be support for multiple keyboard case objects, on a layer behind the keys. Multiple objects permit for split keyboards (ergonomic, external numeric keypad etc). Support for an LED cluster on the case would work well too.