Feature Enhancement - Add shortcut Keys to WordAlignment

[PhotoNomad0]

Story Explanation

User Story

Request from Chris Smith:

I’m wondering whether it would be possible to add some keyboard shortcuts to translationCore. Here’s what I was thinking would be helpful. In the view shown in the attached screenshot, which is the panel for text editing and aligning:

Shift + DownArrow = move to the next verse. (In this case, from 4:4 to 4:5. If you were on the last verse of a chapter, this would bring you to this panel for the first verse of the next chapter.)

Command + R = Refresh
Command + A = Accept
Command + X = Reject
Command + C = Clear
Command + L = Alignment complete

(Command would be for a Mac. It would be Control on a PC.)

This would speed up the workflow, which is important since “acceleration” is our mandate for 2025. Since it would also mean less work with a mouse, it would probably help reduce the issues with joint and muscle pain that some editors and proofreaders have been experiencing. Please let me know what you think. Thanks very much.

After investigation I discovered that some shortcut keys are already used by electron - and I was not able to capture the arrow keys. So here is the updated list of shortcut keys that I implemented:

• Command + N = move to the next verse. (IIf you were on the last verse of a chapter, this would bring you to this panel for the first verse of the next chapter.)
• Command + F = Refresh
• Command + A = Accept
• Command + J = Reject
• Command + K = Clear
• Command + T = Alignment complete

Note: Windows and Linux would use Control key instead of Command

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[PhotoNomad0]

@elsylambert This is implemented in build translationCore 3.6.7 (e7a0c0c)

Note that this only works in the WordAlignment tool and tCore app must be selected to receive keystrokes.

[elsylambert]

Verified on translationCore 3.6.7 (e7a0c0c). Shortcut keys works as expected, defined as follows:
Command + N = move to the next verse. (IIf you were on the last verse of a chapter, this would bring you to this panel for the first verse of the next chapter.)
Command + F = Refresh
Command + A = Accept
Command + J = Reject
Command + K = Clear
Command + T = Alignment complete (Toggle)

[PhotoNomad0]

@elsylambert Added the shortcut keys table to develop build Version 3.6.7 (3ccbde3).

[elsylambert]

Instructions for shortcut key look good in wA tool in translationCore 3.6.7 (3ccbde3).