Fork of vue-shortkey with Vue 3 support.

Useful if you were previously using vue-shortkey in a Vue 2 project and you want to upgrade to Vue 3 without hassle - you should be able to switch to this npm package and update import statements, and apart from that this should be 100% compatible with your existing code.

Vue-Three-ShortKey - plugin for VueJS 3.x that accepts shortcuts globally and in a single listener.

Install

npm install vue-three-shortkey --save

Usage

app.use(require('vue-three-shortkey'))

Add the shortkey directive to the elements that accept the shortcut. The shortkey must have explicitly which keys will be used.

Running functions

The code below ensures that the key combination ctrl + alt + o will perform the 'theAction' method.

<button v-shortkey="['ctrl', 'alt', 'o']" @shortkey="theAction()">Open</button>

The function in the modifier @shortkey will be called repeatedly while the key is pressed. To call the function only once, use the once modifier

<button v-shortkey.once="['ctrl', 'alt', 'o']" @shortkey="theAction()">Open</button>

Multi keys

<button v-shortkey="{up: ['arrowup'], down: ['arrowdown']}" @shortkey="theAction">Joystick</button>

... and your method will be called with the key in the parameter

methods: {
  theAction (event) {
    switch (event.srcKey) {
      case 'up':
        ...
        break
      case 'down':
        ...
        break

Setting the focus

You can point the focus with the shortcut easily. The code below reserves the ALT + I key to set the focus to the input element.

<input type="text" v-shortkey.focus="['alt', 'i']" v-model="name" />

Push button

Sometimes you may need a shortcut works as a push button. It calls the function one time when you click the button. When you release the shortcut, it calls the same function again like a toggle. In these cases, insert the "push" modifier.

The example below shows how to do this

<tooltip v-shortkey.push="['f3']" @shortkey="toggleToolTip"></tooltip>

Using on a component

Use the modifier native to catch the event.

 <my-component v-shortkey="['ctrl', 'alt', 'o']" @shortkey.native="theAction()"></my-component>

Multiple listeners

Use the modifier propagate to let the event propagate to other listeners

 <my-component v-shortkey="['ctrl', 'alt', 'o']" @shortkey.propagate="anAction()"></my-component>
 <my-component v-shortkey="['ctrl', 'alt', 'o']" @shortkey.propagate="aDifferentAction()"></my-component>

Key list

| Key | Shortkey Name | |----------------------------|---------------| | Delete | del | | Backspace | backspace | | Insert | insert | | NumLock | numlock | | CapsLock | capslock | | Pause | pause | | ContextMenu | contextmenu | | ScrollLock | scrolllock | | BrowserHome | browserhome | | MediaSelect | mediaselect | | Shift | shift | | Control | ctrl | | Alt | alt | | Alt Graph | altgraph | | Super (Windows or Mac Cmd) | meta | | Arrow Up | arrowup | | Arrow Down | arrowdown | | Arrow Left | arrowleft | | Arrow Right | arrowright | | Enter | enter | | Escape | esc | | Tab | tab | | Space | space | | Page Up | pageup | | Page Down | pagedown | | Home | home | | End | end | | A - Z | a-z | | 0-9 | 0-9 | | F1-F12 | f1-f12 |

You can make any combination of keys as well as reserve a single key.

<input type="text" v-shortkey="['q']" @shortkey="foo()"/>
<button v-shortkey="['ctrl', 'p']" @shortkey="bar()"></button>
<button v-shortkey="['f1']" @shortkey="help()"></button>
<textarea v-shortkey="['ctrl', 'v']" @shortkey="dontPaste()"></textarea>

Avoided fields

You can avoid shortcuts within fields if you really need it. This can be done in two ways:

• Preventing a given element from executing the shortcut by adding the v-shortkey.avoid tag in the body of the element

<textarea v-shortkey.avoid></textarea>

• Generalizing type of element that will not perform shortcut. To do this, insert a list of elements in the global method.

app.use('vue-three-shortkey', { prevent: ['input', 'textarea'] })

• Or even by class

app.use('vue-three-shortkey', { prevent: ['.my-class-name', 'textarea.class-of-textarea'] })

Other uses

With the dynamism offered by Vue, you can easily create shortcuts dynamically

<li v-for="(ctx, item) in items">
  <a
    href="https://vuejs.org"
    target="_blank"
    v-shortkey="['f' + (item + 1)]"
    @shortkey="testa(item)"
    @click="testa()">
      F {{ item }}
  </a>
</li>

Unit Test

npm test