How to set a Keyboard Shortcut for a Photoshop UXP plugin?

Photoshop UXP Plugin API
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Hello!
Is it possible to set a keyboard shortcut in a Photoshop plugin? I’ve seen some threads about it and some documentation mentioning UXP keyboard shortcuts for Adobe XD and thought it might work the same in manifest.json, but it doesn’t.

    {
      "type": "command",
      "id": "my_function",
      "label": {
        "default": "My Function"
      },
      "shortcut": {
        "mac": "Cmd+Shift+P",
        "win": "Ctrl+Shift+P"
      }
    }

Thank you!

2

Not yet possible. At least if you consider only the sane ways :smiley:

3

Thank you for your reply.

5

Any updates on this, in the past for traditional extendscript, I added shortcuts via the shortcut menu, so they aren’t hardcoded into the script .

However with the UXP plugins it would seem that keyboard shortcut menu only goes to the top level of the plugin menu…not down into the commands level (see screenshot attached)

Screenshot 2022-02-17 at 12.15.46
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6

Yes, I’m very much hoping this gets implemented soon. Or that the developers have it on their timeline:

7

Any idea when this will be available? With CEP I was able to assign a hotkey to an action that fired an extendscript event. Is there any similar method we could use with UXP?

function sendEvent(type) {
    new ExternalObject('lib:\PlugPlugExternalObject');
    var event = new CSXSEvent();
    event.type = type;
    event.dispatch();
}

sendEvent('hotkey-process');
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