[3.x/2.x] MenyKeyTrigger - A plugin to allow you to trigger menu items from letters

[jay@moduscreate.com]

After much frustration with not having this feature, I developed a plugin to allow that allows you to attach a key (letter) for which to trigger the handler of an ExtJS Menu item. I call it Ext.ux.TDGi.MenuKeyTrigger (http://github.com/tdgi/Ext.ux.TDGi.MenuKeyTrigger). I cannot tell you enough how many times I wished this was in some of the Ext JS applications I was developing and testing.



As an avid keyboard junkie, I really hate to have to move the mouse a lot. Hell, being an OS X user, there is much to be desired with the UI in this arena, especially after using Windows since 3.0 and getting spoiled with its well-baked accessibility features.


I developed this plugin about 8 months ago, but have had little time to really polish it due to the the work on my book, Ext JS in Action (http://extjsinaction.com/). But with that nearing completion, I’ve taken the time to release it tonight in it’s beta form, in hopes that I could get some feedback to improve it. http://tdg-i.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif


Blog URL: http://tdg-i.com/313/introducing-ext-ux-tdgi-menukeytrigger-a-menuitem-key-triggering-plugin

Demo: http://tdg-i.com/js/examples/ext3/plugins/MenuKeyTrigger/

GitHub repo: http://github.com/tdgi/Ext.ux.TDGi.MenuKeyTrigger

http://tdg-i.com/img/screencasts/2010-03-09_2138.png

[tobiu]

hi jay,

i am a bit short in time right now (polishing the fm-demo), so i will test this plugin later.

i am a big fan of key-accesibility too, so this is a really good idea for making navigation faster. one suggestion:



{
text : '<u>C</u>ut',
handler : handler,
triggerKey : 'c'
}


It would be really sweet, if the underlining is generated automatically. Otherwise getting the text of an item must use stripTags(). An alternative could be, to add a param for the position of the letter to underline (triggerKeyPos : 2).


good job,
tobiu

[jay@moduscreate.com]

Thanks Tobi.

Look at the example code, I have something stubbed for the future already ;)



{
text : '<u>O</u>pen',
handler : handler,
triggerKey : 'o'
/* for the future */
// triggerKey : {
// character : 'o',
// instance : 1
// }
},

[wemerson.januario]

nice Work