[mac] Native Keyboard Shortcuts

[FWeinb]

As described in Issue #367, added basic keyboard shortcut handeling to MenuItems on OS X.

Usage:

new gui.MenuItem({
   label: 'Test 1',
   shortcut : '\u0008', //  ⌘⌫ 
   click: function() {
     alert(this.label);
   }
});

The shortcut option will be directly used as a keyEquivalent thus will allow everything described here:

This method considers the case of the letter passed to determine if it has a Shift modifier added. That is, [item setKeyEquivalent:@"w"] sets the key equivalent to ⌘W, while [item setKeyEquivalent:@"W"] is ⌘⇧W.
[...]
If you want to specify the Backspace key as the key equivalent for a menu item, use a single character string with NSBackspaceCharacter (defined in NSText.h as 0x08) and for the Forward Delete key, use NSDeleteCharacter (defined in NSText.h as 0x7F). Note that these are not the same characters you get from an NSEvent key-down event when pressing those keys.

With this API is not possible to define a custom KeyEquivalentModifierMask.

[rogerwang]

Thanks. But please see this thread first: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/node-webkit/W261vvrL2jo/971SfZ7Z7eQJ

[FWeinb]

Is this still in development? The last post there dates back to 27.06.2013.

[rogerwang]

@FWeinb yes it's still in development.

[quasado]

When will this stuff be available? We'd be in urgent need of keyboard shortcuts as well ..

[rogerwang]

@quasado it should be in 0.9.3 but currently there is no schedule for it.

[rogerwang]

This has been available from v0.10.0