Question

I’m trying to do something like:

var keydownHandler = function (ev) {
    alert(ev.data.test);
    return false;
}

$(document).bind('keydown', {test: 'foo'}, keydownHandler);

But the .bind does not seems to work as it returns null and pressing a key doesn’t fire the handler. Replacing keydown with the "click" eventType, the event handler is correctly registered and works.

My current code uses an anonymous function like this:

var config = ...;
$(document).bind('keydown', config.shortcut, function (e) {
    config.click();
    e.stopPropagation( );
    e.preventDefault( );
}

return false;
} );

It works fine but I have to externalize the anonymous function and I don’t see how I can pass the extra info required by it.

Answer 1

This is because of the hotkeys plugin is loaded which requires the “combi” parameter to be set:

var keydownHandler = function (ev) {
    alert(ev.data.test);
    return false;
}

$(document).bind('keydown', {combi: 'x', test: 'foo'}, keydownHandler);