Defining keys in modern UI (e.g. for first output port view)

[Christian_Essen]

It’s great that there is now the possibility to open the Ouput Port Views in separate windows in the modern UI!
In this context, my feature request would be that it is also possible to define keys for the modern UI. In the classic UI, for example, I had configured it in the settings so that I could open the first out port view with F4. It would be great if this were also possible in the modern UI.

[takbb]

Totally agree with you @Christian_Essen !

In classic UI, I always have ctrl+enter configured for “open first viewport” and it is so much more efficient for me to view the popup table that way. Plus of course it has become second nature to me.

I too hope that configurable key bindings will return but i recognise they were probably a feature of the eclipse framework used for classic and possibly more tricky to implement.

Even if it’s no longer configurable though, to have a dedicated key for doing it would be better than no shortcut key at all and I would soon get used to the chosen keypress.

This gets my vote

[takbb]

@Christian_Essen , you may be interested to know that in v5.3, opening of viewports by keypress will be a thing or at least it is a thing in the nightly build, as I have made mention here:

@takbb

I don’t want to jump the gun and from looking at the nightly build, I do know that 5.3 is likely to bring with it the introduction of shortcut keys for opening the various data ports both in the lower data panel (Shift+0 = Flow Variables, Shift+1=First data port, Shift+2=Second data port, and also as popup windows (Alt+Shift+0, Alt+Shift+1… etc). I’m not necessarily wild on the choice of key assignments - and would prefer to be able to define my own - , but it’s an improvement on having no keyboard shortcuts.

[Christian_Essen]

Great! Thanks for the information .

[Christian_Essen]

I wanted to ask if there is any news here, for example a shortcut to open the first output port view in modern UI?
And still the hope: shortcuts that you can configure yourself!

[takbb]

Hi @Christian_Essen, on the first part, I can confirm that as previously suggested, with the KNIME 5.3 release, in Modern UI, opening the first output port in a detached window is achieved using Alt+Shift+1 (in windows, and I would think there are the equivalent keys in iOS and Unix). The second output port is Alt+Shift+2 and so on, with the flow variable port being Alt+Shift+0

If you have the data panel open at the bottom of the application, switching to the first output port is performed using Shift+1, the second output port is Shift+2, and the flow variable port is Shift+0.

[Christian_Essen]

Great, thank you very much, @takbb. I had completely overlooked the hint in your last post about opening the views (Alt+Shift+…).