Hi Jeffrey. I’m hailing from Canada.

I’m interested in trying my hand at writing a Lightroom plugin and thought you might be able to help me get started, or potentially stop me from wasting a lot of time. The idea I have in mind includes capturing new keyboard shortcuts do performing actions based on them. For example, capturing ctrl-alt-e and adjusting exposure.

I know that it is possible to access many of the capabilities of Lightroom from Lua, but is it possible to capture keyboard presses and respond to them from a plugin?

Thanks.

The short answer is “no”. The long answer is “no, not possible”. I wish it were, because I’d love to remap some things beyond what OSX lets me. There might be ways with the OS to intercept input before it gets to Lightroom, but I’m not familiar with them. —Jeffrey

****My System Info plugin can show your serial number; shift-click on the “keep private” note to bring up a dialog where you can copy the serial number to your clipboard, which you can then paste into an email.***

Well, it seems you don’t really know your own Plugin? 😛 🙂 Because there is neither a part of “keep private” in your plugin, nor is there anywhere a part with the tag “keep private”. I checked System Information as well as your own plugin. In System Information it is not fully shown (last numbers are ****) and in your Plugin there is nothing except the Hash of the Serial. And no chance to copy it, as there is nothing to click on.

To be honest the most confusing manual I have seen. I guess nobody would find this “keep private” thing.

How Adobe stores the info has changed over time, and the serial number is simply not available to the plugin in many cases. If the plugin can’t figure it out, it of course won’t show it. —Jeffrey

Jeffrey, thanks a lot!

E.g. “LrSystemInfo:osVersion()” has different outputs at Windows and at OSX. A sample return value at Windows is “Windows 10”, the same call at OSX returns “10.11.3” (without “OS X”).

Your hint to the both boolean globals is exactly, what I was looking for. With your help I could find them documented at LR SDK programmers guide. –Eckhard

There is the button ‘view plugin log’ which opens a text file with some information. Have you considered adding a save to text button to save the information as seen on the plugin screen?

Thanks

Seems reasonable… just added it. —Jeffrey