Shortcut API: registered shortcuts swallow DOM KeyboardEvents

[reppners]

If a keyboard shortcut is registered via the Shortcut API e.g.

'ctrl+shift+c'

and somewhere on the DOM a listener for 'keydown' is registered ( by using jQuery on(...) )

el.on('keydown', function (e) {
    console.log('you pressed ' + e.which + ' with modifiers');

    if (e.ctrlKey) {
        console.log('ctrl');
    }

    if (e.altKey) {
        console.log('alt');
    }

    if (e.metaKey) {
        console.log('meta');
    }

    if (e.shiftKey) {
        console.log('shift');
    }
});

this event listener will not fire for the key combo ctrl+shift+c even if the focus is on the element where the listener is registered. The node-webkit shortcut listener will execute just fine.

So the event is somehow swallowed by Node-Webkit. Is this on purpose? Can this be fixed easily? If anybody can point me in a direction I will happily try to fix this myself and supply a pull request.

[nknapp]

If I understand correctly, you have registered a global keyboard shortcut for "ctrl+shift+c" and afterwards try to listen for the same key-combination on a DOM element.

This is not a nw.js issue, but probably working as intented by the operating system. It would be confusing to the user, if pressing "ctrl+shift+c" had two separate effects, one of them depending on which window has the focus...

Try registering a globale shortcut for e.g. "c" (without modifier keys). Then enter a shell or a text editor and type "c". I've tried that on Linux and I was not able to type "c" anywhere until exiting nw.js. The same happens for every other program that registeres global shortcuts (e.g. Kupfer or Synapse)

[reppners]

Yes you are right. Thanks for pointing me to that.