Nuke shortcut editor

shortcuteditor is a keyboard shortcut editor for Foundry's Nuke

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

Watch the first episode of Lars Wemmje's "Useful Nuke Tools" for more details!

Installation

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

mkdir -p ~/.nuke
cd ~/.nuke
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dbr/shortcuteditor-nuke/v1.3/shortcuteditor.py

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

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

Notes

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.

If you are changing an existing shortcut, be sure to clear the old usage of the key. A popup appears to help with this if adding conflicting shortcuts.

Future improvements

For a list of requested and planned features, see the project's issue tracker on GitHub, https://github.com/dbr/shortcuteditor-nuke/issues

Change log

• v1.3 - 2021-08-10

  • Small fixes to support Nuke 13

• v1.2 - 2020-08-12

  • Updated to support Nuke 11 and 12.
  • Warns when overriding an existing shortcut (PR #12 by herronelou)
  • Added button to export the key-overrides as a Python snippet.
  • Faster UI update for searching

• v1.1 - 2014-08-23

• Fixed error in error handling when a shortcut is added for a menu item which disappears.

• 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.

• v1.0 - 2013-10-09

• Initial version