I'm also interested in that topic. Does anybody has some experience with keyboard shortcuts in gwt.
I'd like to have at least one application wide shortcut for opening a log panel and a few shortcuts dependent of what panel actually has focus on. On 1 Wrz, 19:13, levier <levi.mail.l...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm developing an enterprise application and all users scream > forkeyboardshortcuts. > And not shortcuts like you see in GMail (focus some widget, press c to > compose a new mail etc) but true CTRL+N, CTRL+S like you see in a > desktop application. > I thought it really couldn't be done, till I tried the google docs in > Chrome: CTRL+B made my text bold. Wow, that works! But probably it > only works on Chrome right, I thought, so I didn't really believe in > it and let it pass. > > Then I saw Microsoft releasingkeyboardshortcuts in Hotmail. I tried > one and I got a pop up saying "hey you pressed some key, did you mean > it askeyboardshortcut?"... hahaha, so again I let it pass and > thought it couldn't be done. > But today I saw Microsoft releasing their Word, Excel... Office suite > on-line (search for Office Web Apps). I tried CTRL+B and it put my > text in bold and didn't show my Bookmarks bar instead! In IE8 and > Chrome. > > Now, some proof that it doesn't really work all of the time: I > selected the text on the top of the page, hit CTRL+S and nothing > happens... there goes my belief in in-browserkeyboardshortcuts > again. > I guess thekeyboardlistener is only put on the textarea and ribbon > bar and not a "true browser window listener". > > Still, my question stands: > how can I blockkeyboardshortcuts like CTR+O, CTRL+N and do something > with them instead of letting the browser handle them (CTRL+N typically > opens a new browser window, I don't want that)? Any advice is much > appreciated. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To post to this group, send email to google-web-tool...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-web-toolkit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en.
