Customizing keyboard shortcuts?

[saif-ellafi]

Hello!

Some users are expecting the Layers to be deleted when pressing DEL.

For me myself, I disabled in a fork, the UNDO operation with Ctrl+Z. Because shortcuts are being listened kind of globally, and for example pressing CTRL+Z while typing on a non-image-editor TextField will trigger an undesired undo in the image editor.

What are possible ideas, or thoughts, about managing (enabling/disabling) shortcuts, and or adding custom ones (i.e. DEL to delete layers)?

Wouldn't be smart if for example instead of pre-adding common shortcuts to the library, there were a way to deciding or adding which? Or how could this matter be approached?

Just for thinking,
Thanks!

[hm21]

Yes, it makes sense to control it externally. I’ve just added a new callback in version 10.1.0 called onKeyboardEvent to MainEditorCallbacks so external components can receive those events. It follows the same logic as when you manually add a handler via ServicesBinding.instance.keyboard.addHandler, where the handler must return a boolean. If it returns true, the event won’t propagate further and won’t be handled by any other listeners, including the default one from the image editor.

[saif-ellafi]

I think this can be fantastic will definitely give it a try, I'd love to un-fork and disable CTRL+Z, plus the other ones we discussed earlier.