[MlMt] Move focus to message list
Zvi Biener
zvistrash at gmail.com
Wed Mar 25 09:05:21 EDT 2020
I use the following to move from a selected mailbox to the top message
of the message viewer:
"m" = ( "makeFirstResponder:", "mainOutline", "selectFirstMessageRow:"
);
Best,
Zvi
On 25 Mar 2020, at 8:01, Stefan Buehler wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> but now the perhaps less trivial question: My shortcuts do select the
> last message (key l-l), but do not move the focus there, as I had
> hoped. I’ve now found that there appears to be a selector to move
> the focus, “makeFirstResponder:”. But what is the ID of the
> message list?
>
> Cheers
>
> Stefan
>
> On 25 Mar 2020, at 12:48, Stefan Buehler wrote:
>
>> Thanks! Sorry for being so dense.
>>
>> :-) /Stefan
>>
>> On 25 Mar 2020, at 11:36, David Ledger wrote:
>>
>>> On 2020-03-25 09:34, Stefan Buehler wrote:
>>>> Dear MailMate experts,
>>>>
>>>> I like using the keyboard and avoiding the mouse. This works very
>>>> well in MailMate, but I often have the problem that when I do a
>>>> search or jump to a mailbox, the focus is then in the search field
>>>> or the mailbox list, and not in the message list where I need it to
>>>> be to deal with the messages.
>>>>
>>>> I can move focus along with the tab key, but it is a bit
>>>> unpredictable how many times I have to press it to come to the
>>>> message list.
>>>>
>>>> So, it would be great to have a keyboard shortcut to move focus to
>>>> the message list directly.
>>>>
>>>> I thought I could achieve this with the last two keys (f and l) in
>>>> the keyboard shortcuts file like this:
>>>>
>>>> "l" = {
>>>> // 0 In+Sent
>>>> "0" = ( "goToMailbox:",
>>>> "B6C88ECF-C0A4-4B8F-AD99-D29E352D60FD" );
>>>>
>>>> // 1 Wichtig
>>>> "1" = ( "goToMailbox:",
>>>> "9C4141C4-5D02-46C2-8B86-82825D65C9BB" );
>>>>
>>>> // 2 Normal
>>>> "2" = ( "goToMailbox:",
>>>> "81B7C934-ABAD-4349-8129-588BD1E94ED6" );
>>>>
>>>> // 3 Unwichtig
>>>> "3" = ( "goToMailbox:",
>>>> "4272D314-52C4-4FF9-9FA9-1DE1BD287BC3" );
>>>>
>>>> // 4 Other unread (bereits in Folder abelegte
>>>> Mails)
>>>> "4" = ( "goToMailbox:",
>>>> "6FC03EEB-FBC4-4A91-B450-5A0C1330CBDB" );
>>>>
>>>> // Show all from same thread
>>>> "t" = ( "showThread:" );
>>>>
>>>> // Show all from same correspondants
>>>> "c" = ( "showCorrespondence:" );
>>>>
>>>> // Select first message row
>>>> // "f" = { "selectFirstMessageRow:" };
>>>>
>>>> // Select last message row
>>>> // "l" = { "selectLastMessageRow:" };
>>>>
>>>> };
>>>>
>>>> With the lines commented out like this, keyboard shortcuts work.
>>>> But if I uncomment one or both of the last two entries, all custom
>>>> keyboard shortcuts stop to work.
>>>>
>>>> Any ideas?
>>>
>>> You're using braces '{}' rather than parentheses '()'
>>>
>>> David
>>>
>>>
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