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Notes and Reference for implementing keymaps in Blender Addons

Valuable Resources:

Example

  • See the Keymap Code section of the __init__.py script for a working example
  • Note, not all use cases are covered. This is a primer to begin to make sense of things

Keymap Names

For Keymaps to show in their corresponding location in the [Edit >> Preferences >> Keymap] ui in Blender, keymap name must be identical to one of the following 224 strings (without the number), surrounded by quotes. E.g. "Window":

0 Window

1 Screen

2 Screen Editing

3 User Interface

4 View2D

5 Region Context Menu

6 View2D Buttons List

7 Frames

8 Property Editor

9 Outliner

10 Markers

11 Time Scrub

12 Animation

13 Dopesheet

14 Dopesheet Generic

15 3D View Generic

16 Grease Pencil

17 Grease Pencil Stroke Edit Mode

18 Grease Pencil Stroke Paint Mode

19 Grease Pencil Stroke Paint (Draw brush)

20 Grease Pencil Stroke Paint (Erase)

21 Grease Pencil Stroke Paint (Fill)

22 Grease Pencil Stroke Paint (Tint)

23 Grease Pencil Stroke Sculpt Mode

24 Grease Pencil Stroke Vertex Mode

25 Grease Pencil Stroke Vertex (Draw)

26 Grease Pencil Stroke Vertex (Blur)

27 Grease Pencil Stroke Vertex (Average)

28 Grease Pencil Stroke Vertex (Smear)

29 Grease Pencil Stroke Vertex (Replace)

30 Grease Pencil Stroke Sculpt (Smooth)

31 Grease Pencil Stroke Sculpt (Thickness)

32 Grease Pencil Stroke Sculpt (Strength)

33 Grease Pencil Stroke Sculpt (Grab)

34 Grease Pencil Stroke Sculpt (Push)

35 Grease Pencil Stroke Sculpt (Twist)

36 Grease Pencil Stroke Sculpt (Pinch)

37 Grease Pencil Stroke Sculpt (Randomize)

38 Grease Pencil Stroke Sculpt (Clone)

39 Grease Pencil Stroke Weight Mode

40 Grease Pencil Stroke Weight (Draw)

41 Paint Face Mask (Weight, Vertex, Texture)

42 Paint Vertex Selection (Weight, Vertex)

43 Weight Paint

44 Vertex Paint

45 Pose

46 Object Mode

47 Paint Curve

48 Curve

49 Image Paint

50 Sculpt

51 Mesh

52 Armature

53 Metaball

54 Lattice

55 Particle

56 Font

57 Object Non-modal

58 3D View

59 Image Editor Tool: Uv, Tweak

60 Image Editor Tool: Uv, Select Box

61 Image Editor Tool: Uv, Select Circle

62 Image Editor Tool: Uv, Select Lasso

63 Image Editor Tool: Uv, Cursor

64 Image Editor Tool: Uv, Rip Region

65 3D View Tool: Pose, Breakdowner

66 3D View Tool: Pose, Push

67 3D View Tool: Pose, Relax

68 3D View Tool: Edit Armature, Roll

69 3D View Tool: Edit Armature, Bone Size

70 3D View Tool: Edit Armature, Bone Envelope

71 3D View Tool: Edit Armature, Extrude

72 3D View Tool: Edit Armature, Extrude to Cursor

73 3D View Tool: Edit Mesh, Extrude Region

74 3D View Tool: Edit Mesh, Extrude Manifold

75 3D View Tool: Edit Mesh, Extrude Along Normals

76 3D View Tool: Edit Mesh, Extrude Individual

77 3D View Tool: Edit Mesh, Extrude to Cursor

78 3D View Tool: Edit Mesh, Inset Faces

79 3D View Tool: Edit Mesh, Bevel

80 3D View Tool: Edit Mesh, Loop Cut

81 3D View Tool: Edit Mesh, Offset Edge Loop Cut

82 3D View Tool: Edit Mesh, Knife

83 3D View Tool: Edit Mesh, Bisect

84 3D View Tool: Edit Mesh, Poly Build

85 3D View Tool: Edit Mesh, Spin

86 3D View Tool: Edit Mesh, Spin Duplicates

87 3D View Tool: Edit Mesh, Smooth

88 3D View Tool: Edit Mesh, Randomize

89 3D View Tool: Edit Mesh, Edge Slide

90 3D View Tool: Edit Mesh, Vertex Slide

91 3D View Tool: Edit Mesh, Shrink/Fatten

92 3D View Tool: Edit Mesh, Push/Pull

93 3D View Tool: Edit Mesh, To Sphere

94 3D View Tool: Edit Mesh, Rip Region

95 3D View Tool: Edit Mesh, Rip Edge

96 3D View Tool: Edit Curve, Draw

97 3D View Tool: Edit Curve, Extrude

98 3D View Tool: Edit Curve, Extrude to Cursor

99 3D View Tool: Edit Curve, Radius

100 3D View Tool: Edit Curve, Tilt

101 3D View Tool: Edit Curve, Randomize

102 3D View Tool: Sculpt, Box Mask

103 3D View Tool: Sculpt, Lasso Mask

104 3D View Tool: Sculpt, Box Hide

105 3D View Tool: Sculpt, Mesh Filter

106 3D View Tool: Sculpt, Cloth Filter

107 3D View Tool: Sculpt, Color Filter

108 3D View Tool: Sculpt, Mask By Color

109 3D View Tool: Paint Weight, Gradient

110 3D View Tool: Paint Weight, Sample Weight

111 3D View Tool: Paint Weight, Sample Vertex Group

112 3D View Tool: Paint Gpencil, Cutter

113 3D View Tool: Paint Gpencil, Eyedropper

114 3D View Tool: Paint Gpencil, Line

115 3D View Tool: Paint Gpencil, Polyline

116 3D View Tool: Paint Gpencil, Arc

117 3D View Tool: Paint Gpencil, Curve

118 3D View Tool: Paint Gpencil, Box

119 3D View Tool: Paint Gpencil, Circle

120 3D View Tool: Edit Gpencil, Tweak

121 3D View Tool: Edit Gpencil, Select Box

122 3D View Tool: Edit Gpencil, Select Circle

123 3D View Tool: Edit Gpencil, Select Lasso

124 3D View Tool: Edit Gpencil, Extrude

125 3D View Tool: Edit Gpencil, Radius

126 3D View Tool: Edit Gpencil, Bend

127 3D View Tool: Edit Gpencil, Shear

128 3D View Tool: Edit Gpencil, To Sphere

129 3D View Tool: Edit Gpencil, Transform Fill

130 3D View Tool: Edit Mesh, Make Line

131 3D View Tool: Hops

132 3D View Tool: Hardflow

133 3D View Tool: BoxCutter

134 3D View Tool: Cad Transform

135 Gizmos

136 Generic Gizmo

137 Generic Gizmo Maybe Drag

138 Generic Gizmo Tweak Modal Map

139 View3D Gesture Circle

140 Gesture Box

141 Gesture Zoom Border

142 Gesture Straight Line

143 Header

144 Standard Modal Map

145 Animation Channels

146 Knife Tool Modal Map

147 Custom Normals Modal Map

148 Bevel Modal Map

149 UV Editor

150 Paint Stroke Modal

151 Mask Editing

152 Eyedropper Modal Map

153 Eyedropper ColorRamp PointSampling Map

154 Transform Modal Map

155 View3D Fly Modal

156 View3D Walk Modal

157 View3D Rotate Modal

158 View3D Move Modal

159 View3D Zoom Modal

160 View3D Dolly Modal

161 View3D Placement Modal Map

162 Graph Editor Generic

163 Graph Editor

164 Image Generic

165 Image

166 Node Generic

167 Node Editor

168 Info

169 File Browser

170 File Browser Main

171 File Browser Buttons

172 NLA Generic

173 NLA Channels

174 NLA Editor

175 Text Generic

176 Text

177 SequencerCommon

178 Sequencer

179 SequencerPreview

180 Console

181 Clip

182 Clip Editor

183 Clip Graph Editor

184 Clip Dopesheet Editor

185 Clip Time Scrub

186 Generic Gizmo Drag

187 Generic Gizmo Click Drag

188 Generic Gizmo Select

189 Toolbar Popup

190 Generic Tool: Annotate

191 Generic Tool: Annotate Line

192 Generic Tool: Annotate Polygon

193 Generic Tool: Annotate Eraser

194 Image Editor Tool: Sample

195 Image Editor Tool: Uv, Sculpt Stroke

196 Image Editor Tool: Uv, Move

197 Image Editor Tool: Uv, Rotate

198 Image Editor Tool: Uv, Scale

199 Node Tool: Tweak

200 Node Tool: Select Box

201 Node Tool: Select Lasso

202 Node Tool: Select Circle

203 Node Tool: Links Cut

204 3D View Tool: Cursor

205 3D View Tool: Tweak

206 3D View Tool: Select Box

207 3D View Tool: Select Circle

208 3D View Tool: Select Lasso

209 3D View Tool: Transform

210 3D View Tool: Move

211 3D View Tool: Rotate

212 3D View Tool: Scale

213 3D View Tool: Shear

214 3D View Tool: Measure

215 3D View Tool: Object, Add Primitive

216 3D View Tool: Sculpt Gpencil, Tweak

217 3D View Tool: Sculpt Gpencil, Select Box

218 3D View Tool: Sculpt Gpencil, Select Circle

219 3D View Tool: Sculpt Gpencil, Select Lasso

220 Sequencer Tool: Select

221 Sequencer Tool: Select Box

222 Sequencer Tool: Blade

223 Sequencer Tool: Sample`

  • The above References are spat out by blender scripting console when running:
    for i, km in enumerate(bpy.context.window_manager.keyconfigs.default.keymaps):
        print(f"{i}\t{km.name}")
    
  • Note, these refer to what context one's cursor must be in during a Blender session, for key presses to actually activate. If, for example "User Interface" is used, the hotkey will only activate anything when the cursor is hovering over a user interface panel (not e.g. the 3D viewport). If, for example "Window", the hotkey will activate anywhere within the Blender application window

Region Types

region_type must be one of the following references:

[‘WINDOW’, ‘HEADER’, ‘CHANNELS’, ‘TEMPORARY’, ‘UI’, ‘TOOLS’, ‘TOOL_PROPS’, ‘PREVIEW’, ‘HUD’, ‘NAVIGATION_BAR’, ‘EXECUTE’, ‘FOOTER’, ‘TOOL_HEADER’], default ‘WINDOW’, (readonly)

Map Types

map_type must be one of the following references:

{'KEYBOARD_MODIFIER', 'KEYBOARD', 'MOUSE_WHEEL', 'MOUSE_GESTURE', 'MOUSE_BUTTON', 'MOUSE', 'NDOF', 'TWEAK', 'ACTIONZONE'}, (optional)

Space Types

space_type must be one of the following, where the left-side CAPS is the reference. Use the reference in your code:

EMPTY Empty.

VIEW_3D 3D Viewport, Manipulate objects in a 3D environment.

IMAGE_EDITOR UV/Image Editor, View and edit images and UV Maps.

NODE_EDITOR Node Editor, Editor for node-based shading and compositing tools.

SEQUENCE_EDITOR Video Sequencer, Video editing tools.

CLIP_EDITOR Movie Clip Editor, Motion tracking tools.

DOPESHEET_EDITOR Dope Sheet, Adjust timing of keyframes.

GRAPH_EDITOR Graph Editor, Edit drivers and keyframe interpolation.

NLA_EDITOR Nonlinear Animation, Combine and layer Actions.

TEXT_EDITOR Text Editor, Edit scripts and in-file documentation.

CONSOLE Python Console, Interactive programmatic console for advanced editing and script development.

INFO Info, Log of operations, warnings and error messages.

TOPBAR Top Bar, Global bar at the top of the screen for global per-window settings.

STATUSBAR Status Bar, Global bar at the bottom of the screen for general status information.

OUTLINER Outliner, Overview of scene graph and all available data-blocks.

PROPERTIES Properties, Edit properties of active object and related data-blocks.

FILE_BROWSER File Browser, Browse for files and assets.

PREFERENCES Preferences, Edit persistent configuration settings.

Key Types

Available keys and their references can be seen here, where the left-side CAPS is the reference, for the colloquial key name on the right-side. Use the reference in your code:

NONE Undocumented

LEFTMOUSE Left Mouse, LMB

MIDDLEMOUSE Middle Mouse, MMB

RIGHTMOUSE Right Mouse, RMB

BUTTON4MOUSE Button4 Mouse, MB4

BUTTON5MOUSE Button5 Mouse, MB5

BUTTON6MOUSE Button6 Mouse, MB6

BUTTON7MOUSE Button7 Mouse, MB7

PEN Pen

ERASER Eraser

MOUSEMOVE Mouse Move, MsMov

INBETWEEN_MOUSEMOVE In-between Move, MsSubMov

TRACKPADPAN Mouse/Trackpad Pan, MsPan

TRACKPADZOOM Mouse/Trackpad Zoom, MsZoom

MOUSEROTATE Mouse/Trackpad Rotate, MsRot

MOUSESMARTZOOM Mouse/Trackpad Smart Zoom, MsSmartZoom

WHEELUPMOUSE Wheel Up, WhUp

WHEELDOWNMOUSE Wheel Down, WhDown

WHEELINMOUSE Wheel In, WhIn

WHEELOUTMOUSE Wheel Out, WhOut

EVT_TWEAK_L Tweak Left, TwkL

EVT_TWEAK_M Tweak Middle, TwkM

EVT_TWEAK_R Tweak Right, TwkR

A A

B B

C C

D D

E E

F F

G G

H H

I I

J J

K K

L L

M M

N N

O O

P P

Q Q

R R

S S

T T

U U

V V

W W

X X

Y Y

Z Z

ZERO 0

ONE 1

TWO 2

THREE 3

FOUR 4

FIVE 5

SIX 6

SEVEN 7

EIGHT 8

NINE 9

LEFT_CTRL Left Ctrl, CtrlL

LEFT_ALT Left Alt, AltL

LEFT_SHIFT Left Shift, ShiftL

RIGHT_ALT Right Alt, AltR

RIGHT_CTRL Right Ctrl, CtrlR

RIGHT_SHIFT Right Shift, ShiftR

OSKEY OS Key, Cmd

APP Application, App

GRLESS Grless

ESC Esc

TAB Tab

RET Return, Enter

SPACE Spacebar, Space

LINE_FEED Line Feed

BACK_SPACE Backspace, BkSpace

DEL Delete, Del

SEMI_COLON ;

PERIOD .

COMMA ,

QUOTE “

ACCENT_GRAVE `

MINUS -

PLUS +

SLASH /

BACK_SLASH \

EQUAL =

LEFT_BRACKET [

RIGHT_BRACKET ]

LEFT_ARROW Left Arrow, ←

DOWN_ARROW Down Arrow, ↓

RIGHT_ARROW Right Arrow, →

UP_ARROW Up Arrow, ↑

NUMPAD_2 Numpad 2, Pad2

NUMPAD_4 Numpad 4, Pad4

NUMPAD_6 Numpad 6, Pad6

NUMPAD_8 Numpad 8, Pad8

NUMPAD_1 Numpad 1, Pad1

NUMPAD_3 Numpad 3, Pad3

NUMPAD_5 Numpad 5, Pad5

NUMPAD_7 Numpad 7, Pad7

NUMPAD_9 Numpad 9, Pad9

NUMPAD_PERIOD Numpad ., Pad.

NUMPAD_SLASH Numpad /, Pad/

NUMPAD_ASTERIX Numpad *, Pad*

NUMPAD_0 Numpad 0, Pad0

NUMPAD_MINUS Numpad -, Pad-

NUMPAD_ENTER Numpad Enter, PadEnter

NUMPAD_PLUS Numpad +, Pad+

F1 F1

F2 F2

F3 F3

F4 F4

F5 F5

F6 F6

F7 F7

F8 F8

F9 F9

F10 F10

F11 F11

F12 F12

F13 F13

F14 F14

F15 F15

F16 F16

F17 F17

F18 F18

F19 F19

F20 F20

F21 F21

F22 F22

F23 F23

F24 F24

PAUSE Pause

INSERT Insert, Ins

HOME Home

PAGE_UP Page Up, PgUp

PAGE_DOWN Page Down, PgDown

END End

MEDIA_PLAY Media Play/Pause, >/||

MEDIA_STOP Media Stop, Stop

MEDIA_FIRST Media First, |<<

MEDIA_LAST Media Last, >>|

TEXTINPUT Text Input, TxtIn

WINDOW_DEACTIVATE Window Deactivate

TIMER Timer, Tmr

TIMER0 Timer 0, Tmr0

TIMER1 Timer 1, Tmr1

TIMER2 Timer 2, Tmr2

TIMER_JOBS Timer Jobs, TmrJob

TIMER_AUTOSAVE Timer Autosave, TmrSave

TIMER_REPORT Timer Report, TmrReport

TIMERREGION Timer Region, TmrReg

NDOF_MOTION NDOF Motion, NdofMov

NDOF_BUTTON_MENU NDOF Menu, NdofMenu

NDOF_BUTTON_FIT NDOF Fit, NdofFit

NDOF_BUTTON_TOP NDOF Top, Ndof↑

NDOF_BUTTON_BOTTOM NDOF Bottom, Ndof↓

NDOF_BUTTON_LEFT NDOF Left, Ndof←

NDOF_BUTTON_RIGHT NDOF Right, Ndof→

NDOF_BUTTON_FRONT NDOF Front, NdofFront

NDOF_BUTTON_BACK NDOF Back, NdofBack

NDOF_BUTTON_ISO1 NDOF Isometric 1, NdofIso1

NDOF_BUTTON_ISO2 NDOF Isometric 2, NdofIso2

NDOF_BUTTON_ROLL_CW NDOF Roll CW, NdofRCW

NDOF_BUTTON_ROLL_CCW NDOF Roll CCW, NdofRCCW

NDOF_BUTTON_SPIN_CW NDOF Spin CW, NdofSCW

NDOF_BUTTON_SPIN_CCW NDOF Spin CCW, NdofSCCW

NDOF_BUTTON_TILT_CW NDOF Tilt CW, NdofTCW

NDOF_BUTTON_TILT_CCW NDOF Tilt CCW, NdofTCCW

NDOF_BUTTON_ROTATE NDOF Rotate, NdofRot

NDOF_BUTTON_PANZOOM NDOF Pan/Zoom, NdofPanZoom

NDOF_BUTTON_DOMINANT NDOF Dominant, NdofDom

NDOF_BUTTON_PLUS NDOF Plus, Ndof+

NDOF_BUTTON_MINUS NDOF Minus, Ndof-

NDOF_BUTTON_ESC NDOF Esc, NdofEsc

NDOF_BUTTON_ALT NDOF Alt, NdofAlt

NDOF_BUTTON_SHIFT NDOF Shift, NdofShift

NDOF_BUTTON_CTRL NDOF Ctrl, NdofCtrl

NDOF_BUTTON_1 NDOF Button 1, NdofB1

NDOF_BUTTON_2 NDOF Button 2, NdofB2

NDOF_BUTTON_3 NDOF Button 3, NdofB3

NDOF_BUTTON_4 NDOF Button 4, NdofB4

NDOF_BUTTON_5 NDOF Button 5, NdofB5

NDOF_BUTTON_6 NDOF Button 6, NdofB6

NDOF_BUTTON_7 NDOF Button 7, NdofB7

NDOF_BUTTON_8 NDOF Button 8, NdofB8

NDOF_BUTTON_9 NDOF Button 9, NdofB9

NDOF_BUTTON_10 NDOF Button 10, NdofB10

NDOF_BUTTON_A NDOF Button A, NdofBA

NDOF_BUTTON_B NDOF Button B, NdofBB

NDOF_BUTTON_C NDOF Button C, NdofBC

ACTIONZONE_AREA ActionZone Area, AZone Area

ACTIONZONE_REGION ActionZone Region, AZone Region

ACTIONZONE_FULLSCREEN ActionZone Fullscreen, AZone FullScr
  • Note the suggestions here and here on generally available keys
  • Also, see this visual reference for a map of all default hotkeys

Value

"value" must be one of the following references, corresponding to the nature of the button press or tweak:

enum in [‘ANY’, ‘PRESS’, ‘RELEASE’, ‘CLICK’, ‘DOUBLE_CLICK’, ‘CLICK_DRAG’, ‘NORTH’, ‘NORTH_EAST’, ‘EAST’, ‘SOUTH_EAST’, ‘SOUTH’, ‘SOUTH_WEST’, ‘WEST’, ‘NORTH_WEST’, ‘NOTHING’], default ‘NOTHING’


Hopefully this makes a little more sense of things, and helps you with creating your own basic addons

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