I have not been able to get the “Ctrl + Enter” key combination to work in Xojo to leave the “_” at the end of line and start a new line. This worked well in Real Studio.
I have been able to manually type the underscore and then Enter to get a continuation line, but the Ctrl + Enter key combination does not work for me.
Has anyone else noticed this behavior ?
Yes.
Its actually something we don’t have a way to fix in Cocoa because of how Cocoa handles text input.
So… does that mean that you can;t make it work ?
Maybe it should be removed from the User Guide.
Also, it sure would be nice to have a table of Contents for the User Guides - it would make finding things much faster.
Thanks to all.
[quote=27104:@Ron Bower]So… does that mean that you can;t make it work ?[quote]
We’re discussing options with Apple - really.
Quite literally the way the text input system works on OS X is so radically different that we probably can’t.
We had to write a new special plugin for OS X (the text input canvas) because its that different.
If you want your apps to behave like OS X text editing apps do you cannot rely on “Keydown” to get the right behaviors (like international text input) which we could under Carbon.
Very likely - although it may actually still work on Windows (I have’t tried that recently)
[quote=27104:@Ron Bower]Also, it sure would be nice to have a table of Contents for the User Guides - it would make finding things much faster.
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On OS X you can open them in Preview an get the side bar but thats not quite a TOC.
Paul tells us that producing a TOC in iBooks Author is a bit harder than you might imagine.
No it was removed in R2
Very likely - although it may actually still work on Windows (I have’t tried that recently)[/quote]
If Control-Enter will not work, could you bind it to something else, such as Opt+Enter or something? Also, Shift-Enter isn’t working in some places, <https://xojo.com/issue/19636>
The problem is that IF we bind those keys using the available mechanisms then they change for EVERY app 
I know that sounds crazy but if you explore Apples Key Binding system & API’s you’ll be surprised as we are.
There seems to be a way we might be able to use keybindings specific to an app but it requires a private API and we are trying to implore Apple to make it public. But then apparently folks have been asking for this since 1997 
It kind of ties our hands as to what we can do
So, it seems that the solution to making a continuation line it to just type an underscore character followed by a new line (Enter).
Yes ?
Stupid question maybe, but why penalize the Windows platform users?
Well I guess it doesn’t work in Windows in R2… If you are using Windows you can get a copy of AutoHotkey (free and open source) and add the following macro:
^Enter::
Send {space}_{Enter}
return
Of course you can do a lot more too, AHK is powerful! You could write macros for code generation etc.