Keystroke shortcuts in Author View

[stephen.perkins]

Pardon if I was unable to locate this in searching the documentation: Are there keyboard shortcuts for moving to the beginning or end of an element in Author View as there are in Text View? (ctrl+[ / ctrl+]) These and perhaps others would be handy.

Related question: Is my assumption it is possible to create a custom operation to move the cursor to specified point correct? E.g. move to opening tag for parent::note[1].

[Radu]

Hi Stephen,

Are there keyboard shortcuts for moving to the beginning or end of an element in Author View as there are in Text View? (ctrl+[ / ctrl+]) These and perhaps others would be handy.

The somewhat equivalent actions in the Author view for moving to the beginning of an element would be TAB and SHIFT-TAB.

Related question: Is my assumption it is possible to create a custom operation to move the cursor to specified point correct? E.g. move to opening tag for parent::note[1].

Yes, you have lots of API available so you could also implement this as custom Author operations.
Some sample code:

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 /**

   * @see ro.sync.ecss.extensions.api.AuthorOperation#doOperation(ro.sync.ecss.extensions.api.AuthorAccess, ro.sync.ecss.extensions.api.ArgumentsMap)

   */

  @Override

  public void doOperation(AuthorAccess authorAccess, ArgumentsMap args)

      throws IllegalArgumentException, AuthorOperationException {

    try {

      AuthorNode nodeAtOffset = authorAccess.getDocumentController().getNodeAtOffset(authorAccess.getEditorAccess().getCaretOffset());

      //Move after the node.

      authorAccess.getEditorAccess().setCaretPosition(nodeAtOffset.getEndOffset() + 1);

      //Or move before it

      authorAccess.getEditorAccess().setCaretPosition(nodeAtOffset.getStartOffset());

      //Or get the parent node

      AuthorNode parentNode = nodeAtOffset.getParent();

      //and move at the beginning of the parent node

      authorAccess.getEditorAccess().setCaretPosition(parentNode.getStartOffset() + 1);

    } catch (BadLocationException e) {

      e.printStackTrace();

    }

  }

Regards,
Radu