The globalShortcut module can register (or override) a global keyboard shortcut with the operating system so that you can customize the operations for various shortcuts to perform specific functions in each case; For example, the famous Control/Command + S combination to save application state is easy to capture in Electron.js:
const { globalShortcut } = require('electron')
globalShortcut.register('CommandOrControl+S', () => {
// TO DO
});To unregister a combination:
globalShortcut.unregister('CommandOrControl+X')To unregister all shortcuts:
globalShortcut.unregisterAll()From the menu in Electron.js, we can specify a property called accelerator with which we can also specify the keyboard shortcuts; for example:
menu.js
const { app, ipcMain, Menu, shell, BrowserWindow, globalShortcut } = require('electron')
const { open_file, save_file } = require("./editor-options")
const template = [
***
{
label: 'File',
submenu: [
{
label: "Save",
accelerator: 'CommandOrControl+Shift+S',
click() {
const win = BrowserWindow.getFocusedWindow()
win.webContents.send('editorchannel', 'file-save')
}
},
},
***
]Remember that the previous material is part of mi curso completo sobre Electron.js
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