Feature request: Keyboard shortcuts in gui versions of controllers

[madskjeldgaard]

Hi!

I find the virtual / gui versions of controllers immensely helpful. One thing I thought would make them even more cool would be to add the possibility of adding keyboard shortcuts to the elements, at first only for buttons. I imagine adding an extra key to the element-description containing a keyboardshortcut keycode, eg. to add the keyboard short cut a to an element:

( key: 'bt1', 'midiNum':  60, 'keyboardShortcut': 'a', 'midiChan': 0, 'groupType': 'noteOnOff', 'elementType': 'pad', 'spec': 'midiVel'),

This would make all buttons on a gui playable on the computer keyboard in a way that would make it closer to the hardware version, I would imagine.

[madskjeldgaard]

This would also make it possible to easily expand the Piano interface to have a keyboard shortcut layout like the "virtual piano" in software like Ableton Live

[LFSaw]

Sounds like a nice idea! The GUI behaviour is mainly @adcxyz 's field, and I don;t know how involved he is in this atm.
Maybe you'd want to start with a code sketch?

[adcxyz]

Hi Mads,
sorry for missing your initial post, Julay was really busy -
yes, sounds like a very good idea ! Happy to help adding this,
so let us know when you have a code sketch,
or also a more detailed concept how it should work.
best adc

[adcxyz]

BTW, the KeyPlayer quark implements a lot of computer-key-based action
functionality, and may be a good source for sketches.