From: Art Cancro <ajc@citadel.org>
Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2022 17:53:35 +0000 (-0500)
Subject: Detect "delete" key press
X-Git-Tag: v973~58
X-Git-Url: https://code.citadel.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=cbca7a3fad66dd8da8950f28ea5bcbde0a048524;p=citadel.git

Detect "delete" key press

Also built a framework in view_mail.js to handle arbitrary keypresses.
This can be copied to other modules.
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diff --git a/webcit-ng/static/js/view_mail.js b/webcit-ng/static/js/view_mail.js
index cd74cc73f..5312fe09b 100644
--- a/webcit-ng/static/js/view_mail.js
+++ b/webcit-ng/static/js/view_mail.js
@@ -15,6 +15,27 @@ var newmail_notify = {
 };
 
 
+// Handler function for keypresses detected while the mail view is displayed.  Mainly for deleting messages.
+function mail_keypress(event) {
+
+	// If the "ctdl-mailbox-pane" no longer exists, the user has navigated to a different part of the site,
+	// so cancel the event listener.
+	try {
+		document.getElementById("ctdl-mailbox-pane").innerHTML;
+	}
+	catch {
+		document.removeEventListener("keydown", mail_keypress);
+		return;
+	}
+
+	const key = event.key.toLowerCase();
+	if (key == "delete") {
+		console.log("delete key was pressed (FIXME do something with this)");
+	}
+
+}
+
+
 // Render reply address for a message (FIXME figure out how to deal with "reply-to:")
 function reply_addr(msg) {
 	//if (msg.locl) {
@@ -296,6 +317,7 @@ function render_mailbox_display(notify) {
 
 			box +=	"</table>";
 			document.getElementById("ctdl-mailbox-pane").innerHTML = box;
+			document.addEventListener("keydown", mail_keypress);
 		}
 	}
 	fetch_mailbox();