Comment by ๐ธ bluesman
Re: "Finally getting some time to test out Alhena. So far soโฆ"
@gritty Good ideas. There is ctrl + f for search (if that's what you meant). A key to go to the address bar sounds useful.
I have given some thought to user defined shortcuts but there are a few headaches. Most notably, MacOS "dead keys". I wrote a gemlog about it.
I would either have to find a way to work around the dead key issue and the built-in Swing menu mnemonics or limit what keys the user can use as shortcuts modifiers. I'll definitely keep it on the list though. There's usually a way.
2025-04-24 ยท 1 year ago
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๐ธ bluesman ยท 2025-04-24 at 20:46:
@Lucas Ha. Don't get me started on the link shortcut keys. MacOS and (to a lesser extent) Swing's menu mneumonics disrupted my plan to just use the "alt" key. I wrote about it in a gemlog I referenced in my response to gritty. This probably needs more thought.
It sounds like I also need to investigate Vim.
EDIT TO ADD: I'm not sure if there's a way to change the delay when using the up and down arrows but I'll look into it.
๐ me ยท 2025-04-24 at 21:07:
thanks for reminding me to update, was happy stuck on version 3.x ๏
๐ธ bluesman ยท 2025-04-24 at 22:09:
I removed the "delay" on the up/down arrows. It actually wasn't a delay but the time it took for the invisible caret to traverse the screen before reaching the top or bottom.
Also, the content pane now requests focus after page load so you can immediately start navigating with page up/down and arrow keys.
๐ gritty [OP] ยท 2025-04-25 at 02:04:
@bluesman How do I use an existing cert on an app that won't let you in until you pick a cert? My only options are to create a new one. For instance, on Spellbinding (link below), I want to use the cert from my other devices so I can play the same game.
๐ gritty [OP] ยท 2025-04-25 at 02:32:
Also it looks like querystrings are breaking, at least on my game farkle (see link). If you click "Select" the resulting address should just be app?<the selected dice> instead of app?select?<selected dice>
๐ธ bluesman ยท 2025-04-25 at 03:51:
@gritty For Spellbinding you can just go to the parent link:
gemini://tilde.team/~stack/
Import a PEM there and then you can get into the game link.
That Farkle thing sure sounds like something I fixed in the last few days having to do with type 10 with query. It's not in a release just yet - only when building from source. It's possible it's fixed but I'll know for sure after I have a closer look.
๐ธ bluesman ยท 2025-04-25 at 04:19:
@gritty The commit I pushed earlier today fixes Farkle. Crazy coincidence. Look for a new release soon.
๐ธ bluesman ยท 2025-04-25 at 05:09:
Alhena 5.0.6 is out with the aforementioned enhancements and type 10 fix (for Farkle). Oddly enough, I found that bug yesterday while testing a game I'm working on. It's quite the coincidence that @gritty found it today. Anyway, thanks for all the feedback.
Now I need to learn how to play Farkle.
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Finally getting some time to test out Alhena. So far so good @bluesman, thanks for all your work on this.