[unsolvable] Can add-on register key pressed while gui.show_dialog is active? e.g. >a<, >space< ...

[ZombieKnight]

I've asked this question already... but got no answer.
Is there way for add-on to register when key is pressed on keyboard while gui.show_dialog is active?
I'd like to dialog:close() when >space< is pressed, just like in [message]

[Celtic_Minstrel]

Try [set_menu_item].

Of course, that'll only work on the map, not in a dialog… probably.

[ZombieKnight]

... Sry for delay

[default_hotkey]: contains a hotkey WML to specify what hotkey to assign to this, if the user has no hotkey assigned to this yet. (Unlike the rest of a menu item definition, modifying this tag has no effect on the game; it is only effective when initially defining a menu item.) Hotkey WML matches the format in the preferences file and contains the following keys:

key: a string that contains the key to assign to this.
alt, shift, cmd(apple only), ctrl: boolean values.
repeat_on_hold (Version 1.13.12 and later only): if yes (default no), holding the hotkey will repeat the action continuously, unless it blocks input with something like [message]. Due to a bug, versions older than 1.13.12 always repeat the action, with no way to disable it.

"unless it blocks input with something like [message]" seems like so

[ZombieKnight]

Sorry, my question was badly written, my bad.
I've edited it now...
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Is there way for add-on to register when key is pressed on keyboard while gui.show_dialog is active?
I'd like to dialog:close() when >space< is pressed, just like in [message]

[Celtic_Minstrel]

No.

The GUI2 system provides at least two different ways to do it, but they're not exposed in the Lua API.

[white_haired_uncle]

A text_box, focus(), and on_modified?

Sorry, I'll be quiet now.

[ZombieKnight]

A text_box, focus(), and on_modified?

Can I display two custom dialogs on top of each other?
First: my message, on top invisible text box?

[Celtic_Minstrel]

You can display dialogs on top of each other, but only the one on the top can be interacted with, even if it's completely transparent.

[ZombieKnight]

Sounds like that solves my problem, this workaround,
How to make an invisible text input dialog all over the screen?

[white_haired_uncle]

I don't know if you could make the text_box invisible, I've only found doing that for a dialog (background). I was thinking maybe, MAYBE, you could hide it by putting it in a panel and then drawing something over it so you couldn't see the box, use focus to force it to get attention, and on_modified to catch your keyboard input and potentially erase any other text that was sent to the box.

Please understand, I'm just making stuff up. There's about zero chance this would work. Not zero perhaps, but close.

[ZombieKnight]

Ok, I'll try.
It would be weird if you had to close the message-like dialog using esc/Enter.