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Key equivalent for services


  • Subject: Key equivalent for services
  • From: Fraser Speirs <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 08:59:26 +0000

I'm implementing a service in my app, and I'm wondering about the point of adding a key equivalent for it. I mean I understand why I might want one, but it's been my experience that the reliability of their operation is kind of unpredictable. The only docs I could find on services were in the 'Legacy' section of the Cocoa docs, and I figured it out from the example in /Developer/Examples/AppKit/SimpleServce

What I mean by that is that often I'll try and hit cmd-= to define something in OmniDictionary and it just won't work. Are key equivalents for services masked by the same key equivalent in the current app? I'm typing this in Mail at the moment and I can't find a menu item with a cmd-= shortcut, yet I can't use that shortcut to define a word in OmniDictionary.

How can I be sure that my key equivalent will work? What are the rules?

Thanks,
Fraser
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