Shortcut Keystrokes

Hmm, damn, looks like this is only a problem in Firefox... From within IE it captures those keystrokes just fine, makes text bold/italics/etc. as expected.

I have the same question... It would be ideal if, say, Ctrl-B could be hit to make the selected text bold, for example.

Anyone have any ideas as to how (if?) this can be accomplished?

Thought I'd revive this thread as I am looking at FCKEditor to replace the now seemingly unsupported HTMLArea editor for a CMS system I work with.

I have a requirement from content authors using the system to map certain keystroke combinations to functions within FCKEditor.

I really need to know:

1. Is it possible to do this using any built in functionality in the current release of FCKEditor (via the API or config files)?

2. If not possible to do this via 1., then what other alternatives are there to do the key mappings? Can you capture keystrokes in some way and test? WOuld I need to write some kind of plugin for FCKEditor from scratch?

Any info on whats involved appreciated as I need to work out if its possible, and secondly how much development effort is needed.

Thanks

I still haven't touched the key handling part of the editor, but just this week I had a requirement like this one so I might take a better look in a few weeks.

Meanwhile I think that the best approach would be to raise a new event "onKeyDown" and then handle that event from your code in any way you like,

In order to add the event I think that this code (untested) might work:
in fck_i_ie.js, Doc_OnKeyDown

adding at the top (below FCKDebug)
if (!FCK.Events.FireEvent( "OnKeyDown", e ) )
return false;

and in fck_1_gecko.js, oOnKeyDown

if (!FCK.Events.FireEvent( "OnKeyDown", e ) ) {
e.preventDefault() ;
e.stopPropagation() ;
return false;
}

But then being able to let the user select keystrokes and mapping them to a function will be another kind of beast.

Regards.