electron-localshortcut

electron-localshortcut

A module to register/unregister a keyboard shortcut locally to a BrowserWindow instance, without using a Menu.

This is built to circumvent this Electron issue.

Note: Since this module internally use global-shortcut native module, you should not use it until the ready event of the app module is emitted. See electron docs.

Installation

npm install --save electron-localshortcut

Usage

  const electronLocalshortcut = require('electron-localshortcut');
  const BrowserWindow = require('browser-window');

  const win = new BrowserWindow();
  win.loadUrl('https://github.com');
  win.show();

  electronLocalshortcut.register(win, 'Ctrl+A', () => {
    console.log('You pressed ctrl & A');
  });

  electronLocalshortcut.register(win, 'Ctrl+B', () => {
    console.log('You pressed ctrl & B');
  });

  console.log(
    electronLocalshortcut.isRegistered(win, 'Ctrl+A')
  );      // true

  electronLocalshortcut.unregister(win, 'Ctrl+A');
  electronLocalshortcut.unregisterAll(win);

Methods

The electron-localshortcut module has following methods:

register(window, accelerator, callback)

• window BrowserWindow instance
• accelerator Accelerator
• callback Function

Registers a shortcut of accelerator on the window BrowserWindow instance. The callback is called when the registered shortcut is pressed by the user, only if window is focused.

isRegistered(window, accelerator)

• window BrowserWindow instance
• accelerator Accelerator

Returns true or false depending on whether the shortcut accelerator is registered on window.

unregister(window, accelerator)

• window BrowserWindow instance
• accelerator Accelerator

Unregisters the shortcut of accelerator registered on the BrowserWindow instance.

unregisterAll(window)

• window BrowserWindow instance

Unregisters all of the shortcuts registered on the BrowserWindow instance.

Global shortcuts

This set of methods allow you to manage shortcuts that work on any window of your app. They are active only when a window in the app is focused.

They differ from native global-shortcuts because they doesn't interfere with other apps running on the same machine.

register(accelerator, callback)

• accelerator Accelerator
• callback Function

Registers a shortcut of accelerator on any focused BrowserWindow instance. The callback is called when the registered shortcut is pressed by the user, only if a BrowserWindow is focused.

isRegistered(accelerator)

• accelerator Accelerator

Returns true or false depending on whether the shortcut accelerator is registered on all focused instances. If you registered the shortcut on a particular instance, this method return false.

unregister(accelerator)

• accelerator Accelerator

Unregisters the shortcut of accelerator registered on all focused instances. This method does not unregister any shortcut you registered on a particular window instance.

unregisterAll()

Unregisters all of the shortcuts registered on any focused BrowserWindow instance. This method does not unregister any shortcut you registered on a particular window instance.

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2015 Andrea Parodi