Extend the Thinfinity® Workspace Toolbar
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The toolbar.shortcuts Structure
To extend the toolbar with new Send Key options, you have to use the toolbar JSON structure. It contains a javascript object array named shortcuts where each object represents a “Send Key…” menu option and has two fields:
· “text”: It’s the option caption text (String).
· “keys”: It’s an object array, where each element contains a keyboard action.
Why is “keys” an array? Because many times you need to press more than one key to create a “keyboard gesture”. The best example of this are the [CTRL]+any key combinations, where the keyboard sequence is…
· Press [CTRL] (keydown)
· Stroke any other key (keydown, keypress, keyup)
· Release [CTRL] (keyup)
The same occurs with [SHIFT], [ALT], the [SHIFT]+[ALT], [CTRL]+[SHIFT] combinations, etc.
Other options can be added to supply and/or complement existing actions, or to add useful keystroke sequences to help your users.
To do this, each key action has two fields: a type (action field) and a value (key or text field, depending on the current value of action).
The following table explains each action in detail:
And these are the value types:
The following example shows these actions and values in action:
In this example, the first shortcut sends an F1, the second triggers a find/search (a [CTRL]+F), the third just types “Hello” and the fourth combines the second and third examples to process a find of “Hello”.
There are two ways to add new toolbar options:
· Adding the new options to the customSettings global variable, whose settings will affect all users and all connections in the Thinfinity® Remote Workspace installation.
· Adding the new options to the connection parameters, if you are an integrator who is using the sdk.html page or any other page with an embedded remote desktop.
Using customSettings to Extend the Thinfinity® Remote Workspace Toolbar
The customSettings global variable is a JSON object defined in the customSettings.js file, which you’ll find in the Thinfinity® Remote Workspace installation web folder. This variable, a Javascript object, has attributes to set or modify connection features, including some related to the toolbar. This structure doesn’t have default attributes (they are disabled in the source code) and looks like this:
To add the toolbar.shortcuts structure to customSettings you’ll just have to do this:
Modifying Parameters in an SDK Custom Connection
If you are using the Thinfinity® Remote Workspace SDK and you don’t want to change the toolbar for all users, or if you want to modify it in a conditional way (e.g. depending on a user identification or profile), you can add the toolbar.shortcuts structure to the connection parameters. The difference with the previous example is that this addition is not for all users. This change will only affect SDK users, and optionally you can add this data conditionally.
Add the toolbar.shortcuts structure to the connection parameters for all SDK users:
For a selective toolbar.shortcuts addition, you could do something like this:
Action name
Meaning
Associated Field
down
It represents a keydown (just the key down, without the key release).
key
stroke
It represents the complete keystroke sequence action, from the keydown  to the keyup (when you press and release a key).
key
up
It represents a keyup (the key release)
key
type
Send text
text
Value field
Meaning
key
Numeric code for the key.
text
A text to be remotely "typed".