I have taken to participating in mouseless Monday's and Friday's. I have set my windows float and dock tabs to hotkeys that allow me to pull them out or put them back in; however, I want to be able to choose which location to put the tabbed document in. I operate in landscape mode so I regularly have a bottom and a top window in visual studio. I would like to press a hotkey and send the selected document to that part of the diamond guide. Anyone know a plugin or how I can do this?
There's an entire article dedicated to navigating the IDE using just the keyboard, with a section on docking windows and tabs using the diamond guide from the keyboard. So yes, it is possible, and you don't need a plugin for it:
To move and dock tool windows from the keyboard
Navigate to the tool window you intend to move and give it focus.
On the Window menu, click Dockable.
Press ALT + Space and then choose Move.
The docking guide diamond appears.
Use the ARROW keys to move the window to a new location.
The mouse pointer moves with the window as you use the ARROW keys.
When you have reached the new location, use the ARROW keys to move the mouse pointer over the correct portion of the guide diamond.
An outline of the tool window appears in the new docking location.
Press ENTER.
The tool window snaps into place at the new docking location.
Alternatively, you can cheat by simply controlling the mouse pointer with the keyboard, through a nifty system accessibility feature called MouseKeys.
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How do I disable the Xcode auto-display feature of the utilities panel (aka the far right pane that holds the identity inspector etc)?
In full screen mode (coding, not just in the storyboard) whenever my mouse curser gets moved all the way to the right of the screen, the utilities panel displays automatically. It is distracting and unwanted. If I need that panel I can click the button in the upper right to display it, or use a keyboard shortcut. It doesn't seem like anything else is autodisplaying, just the right side panel. Once I move the mouse away from it, the panel disappears again. Maddening I tell you.
I'm using ARC Welder to test an APK in Chrome (on Windows). It works mostly fine but the app uses an old-style Android menu, opened by either pressing the hardware button on old devices, or touching the "3 vertical dots" soft button on newer ones.
However the ARC window doesn't use a menu button nor does there seem to be a keyboard shortcut to open the menu (not that I could find anyway).
Any ideas?
(Note: I know Google has more or less depricated there old style Android menus. But this is in an old APK).
ARC does not provide a way of simulating an Android menu button. We have thought about providing a button in the window frame, like we do for the back button, but we have not moved forward with it. Feel free to star the bug for it
Ctrl+Windows+Esc (Win key is to prevent Windows opening the Start menu):
https://github.com/vladikoff/chromeos-apk#tested-apps
Right Alt should work as well but most keyboards lack that key.
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=290361#c9
In Xcode when we hold the mouse down on the "Back" arrow in the panel above the editor area, we get a popup window showing our navigation history. This is also a standard navigation behavior, seen in most Web browsers.
My question: Is there a keyboard shortcut (or XCode plugin) to pop open this Navigation History popup, so we can use arrow keys and quickly move a selection bar down to the item in the history list we would like to navigate to?
Rationale: When working in a given class, we tend to flip back and forth quite a few times between the .m and .h files for the class. Each flip creates an entry in the navigation history. So, to move back to the prior class we were editing, using keyboard shortcuts only, we need to hit the "go back" keyboard shortcut many times, undoing each flip between header/implementation. Seeing the list visually allows us to quickly identify and scroll down to the desired class in the history list, navigating directly there. When editing code, allowing the hands to remain on the keyboard is better.
Another solution could be: A keyboard shortcut to move back to the previous class (or .xib or other "significant" navigation item) rather than the previous file.
Is there a keyboard shortcut (or XCode plugin) to pop open this Navigation History popup
Yes. The standard key binding is Ctrl2, as indicated above. You can check the key bindings panel in Xcode's preferences for the current key binding on your system if there's any chance that you might have changed it.
Hi not a programmer but am looking for advice. This is about how touchscreens interact with windows.
In many touch drivers that are provided with touchscreens they come with the ability to set up certain types of mouse mode. For example click on touch, click on release as well as the normal click and drag. I would like to know if there is a way (may be with a registry modification) that will turn the normally supplied windows function of ‘click and drag’ (the bit that draws the blue box on the desktop) into a click on touch that ignores any mouse_move . This will mean I can click on buttons but not drag the cursor around.
Welcome any options.
Kev
With a 14" LCD monitor (1366x768), my VS2010 can only display 21 lines in code editor. There are too many tool bars occupied upper and bottom part (see below screenshot). When writing codes, it's OK to use fullscreen mode. However, when reading codes, I need some of the toolbar like the bookmark bar, open file tab. Is there any suggestion to increase the viewing area?
Create a single custom toolbar with just the commands you really use in it. Remove the other toolbars. Close tool windows docked at the bottom.
There is an addon that can even remove the menu bar – you'll need to learn keyboard shortcuts (this is a good idea anyway: moving a hand to/from the mouse is much slower).
Increase secreen resolution
Use a different font such as Terminal or Consolas. I guess you must be already using Consolas, try Terminal.
Decrease the font size.
Turn monitor by 90 degree, so it is higher not wider.
Besides that - get a decent monitor. 14" is barely legal acording to some european laws for office use. Programmers tyically get a lot bigger.
Customize your toolbars and get rid of the buttons you don't use. You'll probably be able to fit everything on one row after that.
For example, I don't think I have used the toolbar buttons for cut/copy/paste, using the keyboard instead, so those were the first buttons I removed.
On the right side of each toolbar, there is a button with an arrow, click on that and you should see "customize this toolbar" in the drop-down menu.
Well, if you are having an older notebook, you might not able to change your display, increase your screen resolution or turn the monitor by 90 degrees, like the others suggested. Here are my suggestions for when this is the case:
Place your toolbars left or right instead at the top or bottom
close output window
use fullscreen mode and learn keyboard shortcuts for bookmarks and file menu functions, so you can work without the specfic toolbars
I use Full Screen mode (ALT+SHIFT+ENTER to toggle) when doing the actual editing, with only the solution explorer open on the right hand side.