Is there a built-in way to listen for the Return key press?

[ericwang520]

Is there a built-in way to listen for the Return key press?

[S1D1T1]

I didn't find one for my project. Nor was I able to catch the key event via .onKeyPress. I can suggest 2 options - presuming macOS-

1 - set up an event monitor - probably easier
NSEvent.addLocalMonitorForEvents(matching: .keyDown)

2 - what I did - since my RichTextEditor is already in a NSHostingView, this opens up some of the underlying Appkit features, including a keyDown handler - which catches many keystrokes in general that can be lost to the quirks of swiftUI Focus voodoo. In the sample below, I specifically watch for Command+Option+Return. But I just checked, it also picks up an unmodified return key press typed into a RichTextEditor.

  // pick up some key strokes I can't get elsewhere
   static func doKey(_ keyEvent:NSEvent) -> Bool{
    if let special = keyEvent.specialKey,
       special == .carriageReturn,
       keyEvent.modifierFlags.contains(.command),
       keyEvent.modifierFlags.contains(.option) {

      _ = promptWindowState.windowInfo.runPromptFromClick()

      return true
    }
    return false
  }

it's important to return false if you don't act upon the keypress, else it won't be passed on to RTE

[ericwang520]

Thanks!