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Subject: Re: Programmatically determining key equivalents with Shift key
From: John Stiles <email@hidden>
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 16:26:02 -0800
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In case anyone's interested, I've found that the docs for setKeyEquivalentModifierMask seem to directly contradict its actual behavior in practice. I've filed a radar on this: rdar://5656732

In a nutshell, there are two contradictions: - Although the docs state that "NSShiftKeyMask is relevant only for function keys," it appears to be honored in all cases in both Tiger and Leopard (which is a good thing!)

- The docs state that "you should always set NSCommandKeyMask in mask," but this appears to be just a guideline for good practice—the API itself works fine regardless of whether you enable the command key mask or not. For instance, if you were implementing iTunes, you could set up the "Play" menu option (triggered via the Space key) using this code:

[menuItem setKeyEquivalent:@" "];
[menuItem setKeyEquivalentModifierMask:0];

John Stiles wrote:

Actually, I've just heard that setKeyEquivalentModifierMask: with NSShiftKeyMask works in this case, even though it is documented not to work. (Haven't tested it myself yet.) Peculiar!

John Stiles wrote:
I have an NSMenuItem and I want to programmatically set its hotkey to, for instance, command-shift-1. I'm apparently supposed to pass "!" to setKeyEquivalent—on an American keyboard, at least. On a French keyboard I'm sure it's not quite the same. So how do I go from "shift+1" to punctuation like "!" while preserving the keyboard layout?
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