Is keymap currently broken in ext1 a2? - Ext JS

#2 03-06-2007, 06:02 AM

I am assuming keys are not being routed to "container" because it doesn't have any element in it which can have the focus to receive keystrokes.

#3 03-06-2007, 05:11 PM

Hi Jack,

Thanks for your reply. You're absolutely right.

Somehow the way EXT mimic traditional GUI framework makes me think that I can attach keymap to any objects :-) My bad.

What I was trying to do is to create some "global" shortcut key that will trigger some javascript callback. So it looks like the user must focus on some html elements that can generate key events for it to work.

My workaround is to use the accesskey attributes and bind them to some offscreen <a> tags. It restricts the global hotkey to have a alt modifier but I can live with that.

I'm using this shortcut to toggle the expand / collapse of the side panels.

I notice that currently LayoutRegion does not export the

collapsed

field which I use to for the toggle function.

It's not a big deal because I usually go directly to the source code for info, but for someone that mainly lookup the online doc they might miss this.

Anyway, thanks for your great work!

            function toggleRegionShowCollapse() {
                if (this.collapsed) {
                    this.expand();
                } else {
                    this.collapse();
                }
            }

#4 03-06-2007, 07:26 PM

Any chance we can alternately bind the keynav to the document so we can have app-wide keynav handlers?

#5 03-07-2007, 07:59 AM

I did this and everything seems to work fine.

            var documentKeyMap = new Ext.KeyMap(document, [
			    {
			        key: "q",
			        ctrl: true,
			        fn: this.showSearchDialog
			    }
			]);