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Rodrigo Rivera
Rodrigo Rivera

Reputation: 177

NPAPI mac plugin sharing commands with browser

I have a NPAPI plugin running in Safari, Chrome and Firefox. I'm able to handle all key combinations with the event callback, but the problem I'm having is with certain key combinations.

In the plugin, I'm trying to use Command+O to fire the plugin's file open dialog, but the browser is also firing its open file dialog.

Supposedly, returning TRUE for event handling method should report the browser that the plugin handled the event, but I'm having no luck with that.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 100

Answers (1)

taxilian
taxilian

Reputation: 14324

You neglected to specify which OS you're on; based on the fact that you said "Command+O" instead of "Ctrl-O" I'm assuming you're on Mac. The bad news is that on Mac, all events are passed to the plugin from the browser. If the browser doesn't choose to make it possible to override the handling of an event (and it sounds like this is the case) then there is probably nothing you can do about it, short of possibly using some OS hook to intercept the key event before the browser gets it, which seems risky.

On windows you might have a little more luck, since a windowed plugin should actually get events first before they are passed to the parent window and thus could intercept them. On Mac, though, it's all windowless and you get events when the browser feels like giving them to you.

Upvotes: 1

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