Consider updating jquery.hotkeys plugin

[GaryJ]

The current version of the jquery.hotkeys plugin in trunk is "(beta)(0.0.3)", where as the ​latest version (as linked to from the credits screen) is 0.8.

Incidentally, this 0.8 version from tzuryby is credited as being authored by John Resig (and indeed, he appears to have his own ​repo for it.

It looks like there was a version jump from 0.03 to 0.7. The later version looks like a complete rewrite. As of 0.8, the project was moved to github. I can't find anything about releases 0.4 through 0.6.

The API has changed, too. API as of 0.03:

$.hotkeys.add('Ctrl+C', {options ... }, function() {...});

API as of 0.8:

$(document).bind('keyup', 'Ctrl+C', function() {...});

I tested this on a local installation and was getting some very odd behavior similar to ​this comment. After some investigation, I wasn't able to discern the root cause.

For jQuery 1.7+ you should be using on() instead of bind(), but I doubt that would fix the experience you're getting with it.

As both tzuryby and jeresig seem not to be addressing the outstanding issues, it may be worth following up on one of the recently active (one committed yesterday for instance) forks as visible from ​https://github.com/jeresig/jquery.hotkeys/network.

Related: #20885

Replying to kurtpayne:

API as of 0.8:

$(document).bind('keyup', 'Ctrl+C', function() {...});

According to the ​readme and ​this comment, the correct syntax is this:

$(document).bind('keydown.ctrl_a', fn);

Perhaps it would be best to also check/refactor table-hotkeys.js (our implementation of the plugin) too. A good initial patch is at http://core.trac.wordpress.org/attachment/ticket/20885/20885.patch.

I have been having trouble getting this plugin to work properly -- it kept binding all the keys at once no matter what key I set. Because of this, hitting any key would trigger my alert "hello." It took two days to find what was wrong, but this code below should work for everyone, where 'S' is the key you chose to keydown (or up) upon:

jQuery(document).bind('keydown', function (e){

if (String.fromCharCode(e.keyCode) == 'S') {

alert('hello');
e.preventDefault();
return false;

}

});

Hope this is helpful to someone!