Common Features
===============
.. module:: common.dialog
:synopsis: Common features to all the dialog
These features are common to many TortoiseHg tools, so we document them
here just once.
Geometry Restore
----------------
Our primary applications like commit, changelog, and datamine will
restore their geometry and position from the last time they were run.
This includes maximization status.
If the state to be restored does not fit within your current screen
dimensions, the application will revert to factory default dimensions.
The TortoiseHg dialogs which are more transitory in nature allow the
window manager to place them where it wishes.
Keyboard Accelerators
---------------------
We define a few keyboard accelerators that all of the TortoiseHg tools support.
:kbd:`Ctrl-Q`
quit the application, including all open windows
:kbd:`Ctrl-W`
close the current window (same as :kbd:`Ctrl-Q` if only one window is open)
:kbd:`Ctrl-D`
visual diff of currently selected file or changeset
:kbd:`Ctrl-Enter`
activation
:kbd:`F5`
refresh
On `Mac OS X <http://bitbucket.org/tortoisehg/stable/wiki/MacOSX>`_, the apple
(command) key is used as the modifier instead of :kbd:`Ctrl`. However some
keyboard accelerators are internal to GTK+ so you must use the control key to
access cut-paste functionality, for instance.
Visual Diffs
------------
0.8 introduced a visual diff dialog that solves four usability issues:
1) The ability to select visual diff tools for individual files
2) Allows you to use visual diff tools that fork background processes
3) Allows you to use visual diff tools that do not support directory diffs
4) Provides feedback when no files were modified
If you prefer the previous (<=0.7) behavior of directly launching your
visual diff tool, you can recover that behavior via the user settings
dialog and :menuselection:`TortoiseHg --> Skip Diff Window`.
Treeview searches
-----------------
Many TortoiseHg dialogs use treeviews to present lists of data to the
user. The file lists in the status, commit, shelve, and changelog tools
are treeviews. The changelog graph pane is a treeview. And even the
annotate pane in the datamine tool is a treeview.
Most of the TortoiseHg treeviews (as of release 0.8) are configured for
live searches. Ensure that the treeview has focus (by clicking on a
row), and begin typing a search phrase. A small entry window will appear
containing the text you have typed, and the treeview will immediately
jump to the first row that matches the text you have entered thus far.
As you enter more characters, the search is refined.
* :kbd:`Ctrl-F` opens the search window explicitly
* :kbd:`Ctrl-G` advances the search to the next match
* :kbd:`Shift-Ctrl-G` searches backwards
* The mouse scroll wheel will advance forwards and backwards through
matching lines
HG command dialog
-----------------
Many TortoiseHg tools use the *hgcmd* dialog to execute Mercurial
commands that could potentially be interactive. In release 0.8, the
dialog was changed to draw all error messages in a dark red color to
give them more contrast from normal output messages.
The dialog focuses its :guilabel:`Close` button when the command has
completed, so a simple :kbd:`Enter` is all that is required to close
the window.
*hgcmd* also responds appropriately to the global :kbd:`Ctrl-W` and
:kbd:`Ctrl-Q` keyboard accelerators.
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