Re: Disabling key bindings
Re: Disabling key bindings
- Subject: Re: Disabling key bindings
- From: Shayne Wissler <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 13:18:31 -0700
On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 12:17 PM, Ken Thomases <email@hidden> wrote:
> On Mar 5, 2009, at 11:59 AM, Shayne Wissler wrote:
>
> I have an application in which the user's normal OSX key bindings are
>> meaningless, and while they are in that application I would like to detect
>> any keyboard event. Right now I am using KeyDown, KeyUp, and FlagsChanged,
>> but these of course are subject to the user's key bindings.
>>
>
> No, they're not. These deal in raw keyboard events.
So why don't I get events for F1-F4, F7-12? I was assuming it was because
they were bound, evidently there's a different level of key binding going
on?
> In fact, the key bindings technology is all about invoking action methods
> specific to a given key function, so almost by definition they wouldn't be
> keyDown:, keyUp: and flagsChanged:. Now, the key bindings stuff is done
> within keyDown:, but only if you so choose.
>
> See <
> http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/EventOverview/HandlingKeyEvents/chapter_6_section_3.html
> >.
>
>
Thanks for the link.
Shayne Wissler
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