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Re: Non-character as button key equivalent
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Re: Non-character as button key equivalent


  • Subject: Re: Non-character as button key equivalent
  • From: "Erik J. Barzeski" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 08:33:01 -0400

On 7/25/02 7:17am, Thomas Jahnsen <email@hidden> wrote:
> I'm having two buttons with arrows in them, one to the right and one to
> the left. Now I want the user to be able to press Cmd-Right/Left Arrow
> to invoke these buttons (besides simply clicking them). But I am a bit
> unsure of what to type in the IB key equivalent box, or pass to the
> NSButton setKeyEquivalent: (which takes an NSString argument).
> Does Cocoa support non-printing characters as key equivalent? I know
> there is functionality for it in Carbon, there is a Menu Manager
> function SetMenuItemKeyGlyph that can set the printed equivalent to
> arrows.
> And no, there are no text fields in this window that wants Cmd-Arrow to
> modify the insertion point.
>
> -Thomas Jahnsen


- (void)awakeFromNib
{
unichar left = NSLeftArrowFunctionKey;
unichar right = NSRightArrowFunctionKey;
[leftItem setKeyEquivalent:[NSString stringWithCharacters:&left
length:1]];
[rightItem setKeyEquivalent:[NSString stringWithCharacters:&right
length:1]];
}



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Best wishes,
Erik J. Barzeski

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