Is it possible to make certain shortcuts available while a LUA dialog is open? i.e. set up specific shortcuts that, while bound to Pattern Editor or Mixer, do those things, but while a LUA dialog is open, then the shortcut does something completely different?
EDIT:
i’m talking about dialog hijacking a shortcut for doing something else.
think “CMD-T in pattern editor creates a new track” → “CMD-T while dialog is open, runs a function in the dialog, presses a button in the dialog, and does not leak CMD-T to pattern editor to create a new track”.
Not sure I get what you want exactly but in general just supply a keyhandler function when creating your dialog, then you can react to any key event while your dialog is open and focused.
local my_handler = function(dialog, key_event)
-- check whatever shortcut you want here and do stuff
rprint(key_event)
end
renoise.app():show_custom_dialog("my dialog", my_view, my_handler)
It doesn’t matter if the shortcut you react to is also bound to something in Renoise as the context is your dialog at that time so other actions won’t be executed.
If you mean the shortcuts themselves are also your tool actions and you want to react to the same shortcuts in the dialog then you’d have to read the user’s keybinding and figure out what key combination they’ve set up and check that.
what i’m saying is, let’s say i have CMD-D for duplicating a track in mixer.
but i wanna be in mixer, and have dialog open, and while dialog is open, CMD-D presses a button in the dialog instead of duplicating track in mixer.
sorry for not providing a better example in the original post!
EDIT: is it not possible to have dialog open and not focused, and catch the shortcut? is it always “needs focus”?
thanks! i’ll have to see if i can make this a preference, i.e. “eSpeak Dialog Shortcut = True” → handler listens for ESC, and a couple of other shortcuts and does stuff" or “eSpeak Dialog Shortcut = False” → handler does not listen for them.