Hot Keys

Assignment to UI Elements

The hotkey property is available for the following UI elements:

Visualization

The key combination for the corresponding hot key is always inserted automatically into the tooltip of the appropriate UI element. If a text already exists for the tooltip, the text for the hot key is appended at the end. For a MenuActionItem, the text for the hot key is appended to the existing text.

A hot key might be used by several UI elements. If this is the case, it is deleted because no clear assignment is possible and the user would otherwise become confused. An exception to this rule is if the same hot key is defined in different hot key containers.

handleHotkeys property

The handleHotkeys property is also available for the following UI elements:

• ScrollContainer

• TransparentContainer

• Table

• Group

• Tray

This property specifies whether hot keys defined within the UI element ( TransparentContainer, Table, and so on) can be triggered globally or locally (when the focus is in the UI element).

If handleHotKeys is set, the UI element becomes a hot key handler. All hot keys defined in this UI element can only be triggered if the focus is in the UI element in question. If the focus is outside the UI element, pressing the same hot key combination triggers no action or triggers an action that belongs to another UI element. By default, the entire pane is a hot key handler.

A hot key can only be assigned once within a hot key handler. If it is defined in multiple, the hot key is completely deleted to prevent confusion.

If handleHotKey is not set, the hot key can be triggered throughout the entire page.

However, the focus must be in the browser page to enable global hot keys to be triggered.

Enumerations

The hot key property can have the following variants: