Assigning keyboard shortcuts to user scripts without first having to run registerKeyHandler

[lollopus]

Detailed Description
I was looking to add a keyboard shortcut to a front end script of mine and realised that registerKeyHandler seems to be the only approach. This seems problematic, because it implies that the script must be called manually the first time to create the binding.

Context
All user scripts should be immediately available to the user via keyboard shortcuts.

One solution would be to add a "shortcut" field in the Scripts window. Ideally, when the user adds a key WK should check for conflicts with the current set of default + user shortcuts.

[hotzenklotz]

hi @lollopus. Thanks for the suggestion. User scripts can be thought of like add-ons and are typically not immediately/automatically run when opening a dataset or annotation. Hence, the included code from keyboard shortcuts is not executed either.

Scripts can be run 3 ways:

1. Open the Scripts dialog from the menu in the annotation viewer. Select a previously added Script from the dropdown to execute it.
2. Alternatively, in the same dialog enter the script code directly into the text box and execute it.
3. Set up a project with tasks etc. Those can have a script assigned to them that is automatically executed as soon as the task is opened.

The third option might be suitable to you.

A better documentation for the Script feature is still under review and should be added to the WEBKNOSSOS documentation website soon. Here is the preview version: https://github.com/scalableminds/webknossos/blob/22263cfa04eece31a3ba7593c69590389b47f6c1/docs/tasks_projects/scripts.md

[lollopus]

Thank you very much for the current options. I still think that my suggestion of being able to set shortcuts outside of the script makes sense, particularly from the individual user perspective. LLMs now provide a phenomenal tool to easily augment the WK tool set via the frontend API, so a user might like to have his/her script loaded automatically upon opening an annotation.