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Focus on first jmenubar item on "alt" key press

Is there any way to auto-select a jmenu within my jmenubar when the user's pressing the "ALT" key ? (Like windows softwares) The problem is that the default behavior of my jframe, when the "ALT" key is pressed, is to show up a menu containing the…
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How to handle alt+p keyboardEvent on macOS browsers

I'ld like to listen the following keyboardEvent : alt + p if (event.altKey && event.key === "p") { doThis(stuff) } Problem is that in OSX (alt+p) === "π" so I wrote this ugly condition for Mac OSX users if ( (event.altKey && event.key…
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How do you prevent Alt key from shifting focus to the MenuStrip?

I'm trying to add my own functionality for Alt-key shortcuts. I have a MDIContainer form, and I programatically add new forms (each with just a RichTextBox) as child forms at runtime. I then add custom handlers to the newly generated…
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WPF: When Alt key is pressed, my ContextMenu won't open

In my WPF app, when a ContextMenu is opening, I want to tweak its menu items depending on whether or not the Alt key is pressed. I've got the logic working. XAML: Code: private void…
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How to access Menu bar (File, Edit, View etc.) in Sublime-Text-3 from keyboard in Ubuntu 18.04?

I am using Sublime Text 3 in Ubuntu 18.04. Actually, I hided the Menu bar of Sublime Text 3. Now I want to use Menu bar. But I cannot access the Menu bar from using ALT key. I have also tried re-installing that. But it didn't work.
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Firemonkey working with Alt + Char

My goal is to hook the Alt key and while it is down, process the next char pressed as a shortcut key, the way the Ctl key works in a TMenuItem. I tried the FormKeyUp event but it never returns ssAlt in the Shift parameter. How can I accomplish this?…
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Alt key command in Intellij for Windows

I've mapped some functions in IntelliJ IDEA to the Alt key. Specifically Alt+W for closing an active tab. When I mapped the key, it said that there were no conflicts with existing key binds, but whenever I try Alt+W to close an active tab, the…
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How can I detect whether the alt/option key is down in GTK on Mac OS X?

I want to detect whether the alt/option key is pressed during a mouse drag in GTK on Mac OS X. I am using pygtk. Normally, holding down alt would add MOD1_MASK to event.state, but alt does affect event.state at all. In key press events alt shows…
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AHK recursive map? (Map RAlt to RWin which is mapped to other keys)

I have a bunch of RWin+X => Y mappings. I would like RAlt to be mapped to RWin so that RWin+X == RAlt+X. For example: ; RWin+J => Left >#j::SendInput,{LEFT} Which works fine, I can hold down RWin and press j and it would keep sending Left. Now…
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SelectOneMenu resets and fires change event on ALT press

Using PF 5.1, JSF 2.2.7 on Glassfish 4.1. I have this simple example with a selectOneMenu:
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detecting altKey on MacOS in zoomchart

I'm implementing functionality to create a link between two nodes on Shift+Alt+Click. Like this function graphSelectionChange(event){ var selection = event.selection; if (selection.length === 2 && event.altKey){ var fromitem=selection[0]; …
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Capturing Alt+PrintScreen hot key and clipboard contents

I setup catching hotkey on alt+printscreen. It catches perfectly but there is nothing in the buffer - no image. How can I get the image from Clipboard.GetImage() after catching hotkey? Here is the the code. using System; using…
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Determine wether the middle mouse button is pressed but not the alt key

I experimented with java.awt.event.MouseEvent and mouse buttons and modifier keys. Finally I came to a point, where I was confused by its behavior. Normally I use SwingUtilities.isLeftMouseButton(...) etc. to detect, which mouse button is pressed…
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send alt-g to chrome window to open a goto dialogue in tradingview

I am trying to open a tradingview url and then invoking a goto date. alt-g. i found this thread which i thought might work. Handle the KeyDown Event when ALT+KEY is Pressed. this has the following code below. (i added SendAltKey by looking at…
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Left alt and right alt produce different results

My script: #MenuMaskKey vkFF #SingleInstance Force SendMode Input SetTitleMatchMode Regex #IfWinActive ahk_exe (chrome|msedge).exe !l::Send ^{Tab} #IfWinActive In Chrome, when using !l with the left alt, ctrl+tab is sent without side effects,…
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