[BUG] Kanji lookup doesn't work from search inputs

[saxoncameron]

Kanji ctrl+shift+k hotkey lookup on highlighted text within search boxes doesn't work. It opens the lookup browser but doesn't search. Doesn't seem specific to Migaku Dictionary, it also doesn't work from the search input of the regular Ank card browser search box.

Searching from contents in Migaku Dictionary and the Anki card browser both work fine, it's just highlighted kanji from the search input.

[RicBent]

Fixing this is near impossible actually. You cannot add application wide shortcuts in Qt.

I'd have to hook into every single ui component separately and add that feature. Currently it just works in all web views as those are a single Qt component (most of Anki is actually just webviews).

I think the best solution would be adding a system wide global hotkey to lookup Kanji. What do you think? Implementing that wouldn't take long as I already did that for the upcoming all-in-one add-on for interacting with the dictionary.

[saxoncameron]

Not a big deal if this one can't be fixed. A system-wide global hotkey seems like a good compromise.

[RicBent]

I was thinking about using Ctrl+Alt+K as the global hotkey. Can you check for me if that one is usable on macOS?

[saxoncameron]

I'm personally using Ctrl+Option+K to cycle keyboard languages, but after some searching, it doesn't appear that's the default chord. I must have just made that up? So I think it's fine? 🤔 How big of a deal would it be to have it be configurable? That's something I always wish I could change, with the other Migaku Anki addon global hotkeys (like dictionary search).

[saxoncameron]

This isn't a bug, and the above discussed feature I've opened a dedicated issue for here: #136