Timeout needed for "Ctrl + Return" to submit and reopen form

Loren Maxwell

Referencing this previous post: https://datatables.net/forums/discussion/comment/140733/

Summary:
* The post discusses the form-options onReturn for an Editor
* The function detects if Ctrl is also pressed when submitting the form with Return
* The goal is to submit and immediately reopen the form for a new entry using "Ctrl + Return"

Here's the way I had been doing it, which worked for several years (or probably more accurately, several subsequent versions of Editor):

formOptions: {
    main: {
        onReturn: function (editor, ev) {
            if (ev.ctrlKey) {
                editor.submit(() => {
                    editor.create();
                });
            } else {
                editor.submit();
            }
        }
    }
},    

However it had stopped working a while ago and I never troubleshot the issue until today.

I've had to add a small timeout to get it to work again:

formOptions: {
    main: {
        onReturn: function (editor, ev) {
            if (ev.ctrlKey) {
                editor.submit(function() {

                    // Timeout added
                    setTimeout(function () {
                        editor.create()
                    }, 200)
                    
                })
            } else {
                editor.submit()
            }
        }
    }
}

Not sure if that's the best way, but wanted to pass along the update in case anyone else needed it and open it up to discussion if there's a better way to do it.

allan

Many thanks for the update. Great to hear you have a workaround.

Allan