PROBLEM: Polish right-alt+L has no effect

Applies To:

Causes:

• The AltGr (or right Alt) key in European keyboards is equivalent to holding both the Alt and Ctrl keys simultaneously. The component used to edit in WYSIWYG mode maps the Ctrl+L key to display the hyperlink dialog (assuming the cursor is within a hyperlink). The component does not take into account that the Alt key is also pressed. The component does take this into account when the Z, X, and C keys are pressed, which are short-cut keys for Undo, Cut and Copy, respectively.

Solutions:

• Unfortunately, there isn't any way to prevent the WYSIWYG component from using keyboard accelerators. Therefore, the AltGr+L key will be intercepted and interpreted to always mean 'open the hyperlink dialog' rather than insert a L character when using the Polish (Programmers) keyboard.

  As an alternative, the L and l characters may be entered by typing ~L and ~l. That is, press Shift and the tilde (~)/accent (`) key followed by pressing the Shift and L key (Capital letter L) or just the L key (small letter l).

  With eWebEditPro 2, you may add buttons on the toolbar menu to insert these letters. Simply add the following (shown in green bold) to your configuration XML data (e.g., config.xml).

  <config ...>
  <interface>
  :
  <menu name="specialcharsbar" newRow="false" showButtonsCaptions="false" wrap="true">
  :
  <button command="cmdchr321"/>
  <button command="cmdchr322"/>
  :
  </menu>
  :
  </interface>
  <features>
  <standard>
  :
  <command name="cmdchr321">
  <caption>&#321;</caption>
  <tooltiptext>Capital letter L with stroke</tooltiptext>
  </command>
  <command name="cmdchr322">
  <caption>&#322;</caption>
  <tooltiptext>Small letter L with stroke</tooltiptext>
  </command>
  :
  </features>
  </config>

More Resources:

Microsoft Windows Keyboard Layouts

Dead-Key Combinations on the Polish Programmer's Keyboard