qartho / qhotkeys

Electron global hotkeys without overriding native hotkeys

qHotkeys

Global shotcut replacement for Electron's implementation without preventing native OS shortcuts.

This project utilizes uiohook-napi. It depends on them and might not work on every system nor node/electron version.

My purpose in creating qHotkeys was to be a replacement for Electron's global shortcut. With qHotkeys you can create a shortcut such as CommandOrControl + X and your app will still recognize the input AND your os will perform the 'cut' action

This project is early in development. Report any bugs or issues on the GitHub issue tracker.

Installation

Install qHotkeys using npm:

npm i qhotkeys

Example Implementation

import { qKeys, qHotkeys } from 'qHotkeys'

// Create instance
var hotkeys = new qHotkeys()

// ... 
app.whenReady().then(() => {

    // ...

    // Your custom actions
    const hotkeyAction = () => {
        console.log("I pressed my hotkeys!")
    }

    const scrollUpAction = () => {
        console.log("I scrolled up!")
    }

    const scrollDownAction = () => {
        console.log("I scrolled down!")
    }

    // Registers your hotkey actions
    // Command or Control + X = hotkeyAction called
    hotkeys.register([qKeys.CmdOrCtrl, qKeys.X], hotkeyAction)
    
    // Registers your scroll actions
    // Command or Control + ScrollUp = scrollUpAction called
    // Command or Control + ScrollDown = scrollDownAction called
    hotkeys.registerScroll([qKeys.CmdOrCtrl], scrollUpAction, scrollDownAction)
    
    // For scroll register, the hotkey list can be empty
    hotkeys.registerScroll([], scrollUpAction, scrollDownAction)

    // Starts
    hotkeys.run()
    
    // ...
})

To-Do List

This project is early in development and I have lots of ideas to expand the capabilities. Here's a roadmap of planned additions to qHotkeys.

• Add event info to the action callbacks
• Individual scroll registers
• Add mouse buttons
• Add mouse move
• Horizontal Scroll

Anymore ideas? Create an issue on the github page!

License

MIT

Maintained by QarthO.

qhotkeys's Issues

Feature ideas

• multitouch/gestures support
• gamepad support
• midi device support?

Build 1.1.1 is not updated on npmjs.com

I'm sorry sir but the version 1.1.1 build on npmjs has the new package.json file, but it somehow is missing all the new functions like unregisterAll etc...

Steps to reproduce:
npm i [email protected]

Trying to use it:

You should notice the files in the node_modules/dist folder appear to be outdated possibly from version 1.0.15, and is missing unregister() and unregisterAll() functions
index.d.ts

index.js

Maybe with this latest build you forgot to run npm run build before publishing 🤔?