Missing shortcuts in Units Menus

[Tim Wessman]

(01-27-2016 09:55 PM)John Colvin Wrote:  I agree. The Prefix, Length, Volume, and Energy sub-menus have no numbers associated with their cells, requiring extra key strokes to get to the desired unit (using cursor button) for those of us that don't like using touch screens. There doesn't seem to be any logical reason to omitting the numbers on these four units categories when the rest of them have the numbers in their sub-menu cells. Seems to be an oversight.

There is actually logic to it. There are too many items in that menu to have a hotkey based on the defined limits.

The grid choosers allow up to a 4x4 grid in the same physical configuration as the chooser (so they visibly line up with the equivalent grid position). This gives you the block of keys defined by the 7 key, through to the + key.

The regular chooser uses 1-9, then A-N.

I suppose I could make the grid hotkeys show up for at least the first 4x4 grid, but I'm not sold on that idea yet.