Gmail-like keyboard shortcuts possible?

[Manuel]

What's the best way to implement Gmail-like keyboard shortcuts?

I'd like to get all keypresses, except those in text boxes.

I've searched the archives, and I can't find a good way to do this.

Thanks,
Manuel

[Thomas Broyer]

Two solutions immediately come to mind:
1. create a widget and add a keypress handler (addDomHandler, this is
a protected method so you have to inherit an existing Widget subclass:
SimplePanel, AbsolutePanel, etc.); you should get events thanks to
bubbling, but not events directed to text boxes because they "eat"
them (stopPropagation)
2. preview events (Event.addNativePreviewHandler); here you'd get
events before they get to their target, including text boxes, so you'd
have to check that the actual target is not a text box.

[Manuel]

On Jun 21, 4:51 pm, Thomas Broyer <t.bro...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 20 juin, 18:23, Manuel <msim...@gmail.com> wrote:
>

> > What's the best way to implementGmail-like keyboard shortcuts?

>
> > I'd like to get all keypresses, except those in text boxes.

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> Two solutions immediately come to mind:

%snip

> 2. preview events (Event.addNativePreviewHandler); here you'd get
> events before they get to their target, including text boxes, so you'd
> have to check that the actual target is not a text box.

Thanks!

I use the second method, and actually text boxes consume the events,
so I don't even need to check for that.