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In IB under the Attributes Inspector there's an option for a button which says 'Key Equivalent'. When I add something there such as CMD+AnyKeyboard Letter as a shortcut to activate that button method nothing happens when I test my app. I've tried all sorts of combinations without success.
Any ideas why this wouldn't work?
Basically I'm just trying to allow the user to enter a keyboard shortcut to open a window.
In IB under the Attributes Inspector there's an option for a button which says 'Key Equivalent'. When I add something there such as CMD+AnyKeyboard Letter as a shortcut to activate that button method nothing happens when I test my app. I've tried all sorts of combinations without success.
Any ideas why this wouldn't work?
Basically I'm just trying to allow the user to enter a keyboard shortcut to open a window.
Do you use a button (NSButton)? Is it hidden? If it is, unhide it. Hidden buttons can't be chosen by the user, also not by a key equivalent. Do you use an NSMenuItem? If no NSButton works, try the NSMenuItem. This should work in every case. Is the method of the button connected?
Hi Linus, thanks again for the reply. I'll give it another go but I'm convinced it doesn't work. Basically my app is a menubar app. Although it's available in the background it's not in view so my intention was to use a keyboard shortcut to bring up a window when necessary.
Hi Linus, thanks again for the reply. I'll give it another go but I'm convinced it doesn't work. Basically my app is a menubar app. Although it's available in the background it's not in view so my intention was to use a keyboard shortcut to bring up a window when necessary.
Does that mean, that your app isn't always the frontmost one? Then it's no wonder that your shortcut doesn't work. Shortcuts do only work when the app they belong to is the front most application. To use global shortcuts, and I think that is what you want, google for "global hotkeys cocoa" or something like that. To achieve what you want, you have to use code parts of C. But there are some nice tutorials on that.
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Hope that helps :)
Have a nice day,
Linus
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