It turns out then when you have an Add/Edit screen open (dialog or full), that you can hit CTRL + S to save the screen. This avoids all validation I have coded, and also does not matter if I have disabled Lightswitch's own save button. How can I disable this?
on a browse or view screen, this does not occur and the user is only able to save there web page
One option to disable the Ctrl+S is to remove the msls-save-button css class from your screen's save button. This can be done in your screen's created method as follows:
myapp.AddEditScreen.created = function (screen) {
$(window).one("pagechange", function (e, data) {
var $page = $("#" + screen.details._pageId);
var $button = $page.find(".msls-save-button");
$button.removeClass("msls-save-button");
});
};
The jQuery mobile pagechange handler is needed to ensure that your screen is rendered (and _pageId is defined) as covered in my answer to the following post:
LightSwitch Tabbed screen in Browse template
This approach does the trick because the LightSwitch msls library executes the vclick against the commit button by matching either the msls-save-button or msls-ok-button classes. Therefore, if the msls-save-button class is removed, the vclick cannot be triggered and in essence the Ctrl+S is ignored.
The following lists the msls library function which handles the short-cut keys (the msls-save-button vclick handling is covered at the end of the function):
function _handleScreenKeyboardShortCuts($page, navigationUnit) {
var buttonsNeeded = navigationUnit._buttonsNeeded,
showCancel;
if (!buttonsNeeded) {
return;
}
showCancel = buttonsNeeded.showSaveDiscard ||
buttonsNeeded.showOkCancel;
if (!(showCancel || buttonsNeeded.showOk)) {
return;
}
$page.keydown(function (e) {
if (msls_shell._currentNavigationOperation ||
$.mobile.popup.active) {
return;
}
if (showCancel && _isCancelShortCutKey(e)) {
$(".msls-discard-button,.msls-cancel-button",
$.mobile.activePage).trigger("vclick");
return false;
} else if (_isCommitShortCutKey(e)) {
$(".msls-save-button,.msls-ok-button",
$.mobile.activePage).trigger("vclick");
return false;
}
});
}