How to enable 'hard edit' mode?

Infent

How can I enable the 'hard edit' modus (orange ring) instead of the 'soft edit' modus (blue ring)?

I want keyCode 113 (F2) to enable the hard edit modus (just like Excel).
But when i use edit(), it enables the soft edit modus.

How can I get access to the hard edit modus?

Edit: I'm using keyTable with Editor, like this example

allan

Double click on the cell. Or click to focus and then press return.

Allan

Infent

I understand, but that's not what I want.

I want to edit the cell by pressing F2 (keyCode 113) to enable the hard edit modus.

Is there an function to achieve that? Something like

if(keyCode === 113) { table.cell(this).edit('hardEdit') }

allan

Currently no - there is no API for that. It would require a modification to the KeyTable library here. This is how it triggers a hard edit internally if you want to implement that.

Its a good idea - thank you for it, and I'll look into it for the next release.

Allan

Infent

So for anyone else who wants Excel like navigation/edit:

• Enter/Return for column/cell down
• F2 for (hard)edit mode

Note: This disabled Enter/Return for (hard)edit a cell

case 13:
case 40: // down arrow
  if (navEnable) {
   this._shift(e, 'down');
  }
  break;

case 113:
  this._editor(null, e, true);
  break;

Could be improved, but this works for me

allan

Committed in here. Thanks .

Allan

Infent

@allan , I'm not sure but I think the break; needs to be after the if(){} statement.

case 113: // F2 - Excel like hard edit
  if ( this.c.editor ) {
    this._editor(null, e, true);
    break;
  }

But like this:

case 113: // F2 - Excel like hard edit
  if ( this.c.editor ) {
    this._editor(null, e, true);
  }
  break;

allan

The idea was that if Editor isn't defined then it will fall through to the default handler allowing the key event to handle F2 if required. Good point though, I should have commented that. Added now .

Allan