plugins.window.createShortcut()

Classic Servoy
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Hi,

The shortcut names ‘PAGE_DOWN’ and ‘PAGE_UP’ does not result in firing the specified method when pressing the PageDown and PageUp keyboard keys. Other keys (for example F11 or F12) do work ok.

I set these shortcuts only when I go into record view. I understand I must not use PageDown and PageUp when I am in table view…

Smartclient 5.2.2,
Windows XP and Vista.

Regards,

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Lambert

This works fine for me in record view in smart client:

plugins.window.createShortcut('PAGE_DOWN', forms.categories.handleShortcut, 'categories');

Rob

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Hi Rob,

In our framework :

plugins.window.createShortcut(‘F12’, globals.svy_nav_dc_next) does fire ok with F12 key

plugins.window.createShortcut(‘PAGE_DOWN’, globals.svy_nav_dc_next) does not fire with PageDown key

(The only thing I do to test is change the F12 to PAGE_DOWN and vice versa in our code)

As said : smart client record view.

I think it has to do with which form element has the focus. Example : a text area has pagedown and pageup key support…

Any info about this is welcome…

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Lambert,

You are right, the working of this event depends on the focus.
If a scrolled pane already processed the page-down key we do not receive the event.
I don’t think we can do much about that.

In general, when a shortcut clashes with existing OS, browser or other keybindings we do not receive the event.

Rob

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Hi Rob,

Thanks for the info. It’s clear now.

Regards,

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plugins.window.createShortcut(‘Alt F2’, globals.myMethod) does not fire when pressing Alt+F2.
What could cause this when there is no equal shortcut key defined?

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Hi Karel,

In webclient ? Compare behaviour with Smartclient. All browser shortcuts have precedence above yours created.

Apart from that I try to bind the shortcut to a form cause I’ve noticed the global createShortcut() misses the event sometimes (I have no proof).

Regards,

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lwjwillemsen:
Hi Karel,
In webclient ? Compare behaviour with Smartclient. All browser shortcuts have precedence above yours created.
Apart from that I try to bind the shortcut to a form cause I’ve noticed the global createShortcut() misses the event sometimes (I have no proof).
Regards,

Hi Lambert,
Thanks for your input. My issue occurs in smart/debugclient using Servoy 6.0.4 on Windows 7.
I’ve also applied form binding, but that doesn’t seem to help either…