Nuke shortcut editor

shortcuteditor is a keyboard shortcut editor for The Foundry's Nuke

It allows you to quickly bind keyboard shortcuts to existing menu items without writing Python code

Installation

Put shortcuteditor.py on PYTHONPATH or NUKE_PATH somewhere (probably in ~/.nuke/)

mkdir -p ~/.nuke
cd ~/.nuke
curl -O https://raw.github.com/dbr/shortcuteditor-nuke/master/shortcuteditor.py

Then in ~/.nuke/menu.py add the following:

try:
    import shortcuteditor
    shortcuteditor.nuke_setup()
except Exception:
    import traceback
    traceback.print_exc()

Notes

Should work in Nuke 6.3v3 onwards (when the nuke.Menu.setShortcut method was added)

The shortcuts overrides are saved in ~/.nuke/shortcuteditor_settings.json

You can search for menu items either by name ("Search by text"), or by existing shortcut ("Search by key"), or both (rarely necessary)

There are a few shortcuts you cannot (easily) override in the viewer context, specifically things like the r/g/b and z/x/c shortcuts are hardwired (as of Nuke 7 - might change in the future)

If you are changing an existing shortcut, be sure to clear the old usage of the key (using the "Search by key")

Future improvements

• Handle conflicting shortcuts better (highlight the shortcut in red when it conflicts or something?)
• Ability to view/clear specific overrides, rather than global "Reset.."

Change log

• v1.0
• Initial version
• v1.1
• Fixed error in error handling when a shortcut is added for a menu item which disappers.
• nuke_setup method works as expected when installed earlier in NUKE_PATH. Previously it might run before some menu items were added, so the shortcut was never set.