Possible to capture sequence of keyboard shortcuts to a file?

[ariestav]

Hi There,

I'm curious to know if it's possible to write a plugin with Photoshop's SDK in order to capture all users' successful keyboard shortcuts to a file.  For example, if a user hit the "v" key that led to selecting the Move Tool on the tool palette, would it be possible to record that hotkey combo to a text file on disk?  Are there any hooks into that level of Photoshop?

Thanks for your time and help!

[ilvar]

I don't think there is any (publicly available) PS API that would do what you want. You should be able to monitor keyboard activity by adding low-level (and platform-specific, of course) hooks into a resident automation plugin, however relating keyboard shortcuts to specific PS events may be quite tricky as many of them are 'silent', from the listener plugin point of view, which probably makes it close to impossible to create a perfect one-to-one model, if this is what are you are interested in. You should be able to provide a partial solution for some specific cases though, so I guess the feasibility of what you are trying to achieve here depends on the scope.