Keyboard shortcuts for APEX applications

Hi,
I want to add shortcut keys to my APEX application. I have already allowed users to show report, save and delete data using F-keys – I made it with javascript and doSubmit(request) function, invoking pl/sql procedure on F-key press.
Unforutnatelly I don’t know how to invoke something else than pl/sql procedure or request. In my application I have several buttons, most of them are connected to procedures but one, that should have shortcut, invokes JS function. The problem is that I want to have one shortcut function for whole application and put it into library. So that procedures on each page has the same request, and it works very well, but I can’t simulate this way clicking on button with JS. JS invoking by this button is different for each page so I can’t just replace doSubmit() with it.
Do you know any way to simulate clicking on the button or create shortcut for it? Button is displayed as <A> HREF with <IMG>.
Regards,
Przemek

Time and motion studies in terms of Gilbreth‘s therbligs do not favor your approach. The keyboard lies in the heart of the area of minimall motion requirements. The mouse requires more movement to accomplish the same task. It’s all in what’s comfortable with the user, regardless of efficiency, or what the user’s bent may be for finding other ways. Antagonistic responses are oxymoronic in terms of the definition of “help”: verb sap.
Message was edited by: alibi . . . I needed to get around the program’s ill informed decency standards. “Bent” is a poor substitute for l*u*s*t.

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Time and motion studies in terms of Gilbreth‘s therbligs do not favor your approach. The keyboard lies in the heart of the area of minimall motion requirements. The mouse requires more movement to accomplish the same task. It’s all in what’s comfortable with the user, regardless of efficiency, or what the user’s bent may be for finding other ways. Antagonistic responses are oxymoronic in terms of the definition of “help”: verb sap.
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