form elements

Classic Servoy
1

it would be a real time saver to include under the elements menu
“send to back” and “send to front”

send back 1 layer
bring forward 1 layer

and attach a keyboard command to them…

thanks :D

2

They are already in the elements menu and on the toolbar…suggestions for shortcut key?

3

Jan Blok:
They are already in the elements menu and on the toolbar…suggestions for shortcut key?

What about this:

CTRL-[        == bring to front
SHIFT-CTRL-[  == bring forward
CTRL-]        == send to back
SHIFT-CTRL-]  == send backward
4

Will be so in Servoy 3.0

5

the proposed shortcuts might be interesting on qwerty keyboards, but it might be handy to take other keyboard layouts also into account. The proposed shortcuts would take (if they worked at all, what is not my experience) four keydowns on an azerty(belgian,french,…) keyboard. Isn’t there some rule in the GUI guidelines about the max number of keys needed for a shortcut.

So while I don’t have a real proposition as an alternative, I would appreciate it if you just could take some more keyboard layouts into account when chosing shortcuts. Maybe a a customisable shortcut preference pane ?

Just show US based software developers (because they never take it into account) there is a better way.

thx

6

Maybe these would work. I didn’t check if these are taken.

Ctrl+Page Up == bring forward
Shift+Page Up == bring to front
Ctrl+Page Down == send backward
Shift+Page Down == send to back