I made arrow key navigation for the manual, for FF

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I found myself spoiled by other websites that do this, so I went into the jqueries and added a few.

Find the staticFilesManual directory and you’ll see the css and javascript directories. In either, or both Core.js, add this function for fireFox:

/****************************************
  ==== 8. USER ADDED FUNCTIONS
****************************************/ // Allow arrow keys to navigate
  $(document).keypress( function(e) {
    switch(e.keyCode)
    {
      case 37:
     $(".prev")[0].firstElementChild.click();
      break;
      case 38: //up
          var listElem = $("div[class='breadcrumbs clear']")[0].firstElementChild;
          if( listElem.children.length >= 2)
          {
              listElem.children[listElem.children.length-2].firstElementChild.click();
         }
      break;
     case 39:
     $(".next")[0].firstElementChild.click();
     }
      } );

If I had time I’d map all the hierarchies, group functions by what they do, and erase all inherited properties.

Thought this might help somebody, or at least spark a document mod

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Cool, thanks. I like the idea of being able to navigate documentation using keyboard (although not sure about using up key, as it conflicts with normal up/down arrows for scrolling the page). Seems that changing keypress() to keydown() in the code above, also makes it work on Chrome.

Thanks a lot, we’ll look into if we can get this into the docs (and in that case how to credit you ofc).

Btw. which sites were you inspired by?

Rasmus

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Mostly comics. I am having issues remembering other sites that do this, but I remember going through various manuals like this. Scrolling, I guess I don’t normally go “up” since I read linearly.

Didn’t expect a Unity Tech to be responding so quick near holidays, enjoy your vacation!

Take a look at iOS for the functional categorical organization, and previous Unity docs used hierarchies. Inherited methods are somewhat repetitive, esp, since they are all lumped into one spot. I can’t tell if the method comes from 1 or more levels up the tree.

Not saying it hinders me completely, I wrote a card game, just have to size it for different devices and find a decent HTML rendering thingy.

edit: I remember, it’s Kindle. Amazon kindle lets you do this, and most book-reader programs