Re: Getting a command key before it is interpreted by the menus
Re: Getting a command key before it is interpreted by the menus
- Subject: Re: Getting a command key before it is interpreted by the menus
- From: Kay Roepke <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 16:50:32 +0200
On 23. Apr 2004, at 16:23 Uhr, Gideon King wrote:
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Hi, I have a situation in my application where I would like to
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intercept command key combinations before they are processed by the
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menu system. In the archives, people say to override NSApplication's
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sendEvent: method. This works if the menu is not currently open, but
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if the user has the menu open, the command key events never make it to
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sendEvent: I looked at the documentation and saw NSMenuView, and
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thought I could override keyDown: there, but then I noticed that the
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documentation says that it is obsolete and no longer used, but it
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doesn't say what it has been replaced with. I see references in other
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postings to a carbon menu manager, but don't see how to get at that or
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how to interact with it in my app.
AFAIK the menu stuff is still(again?) completely in Carbon. Thus the
event handling would also be in Carbon (for that part of the
application). That would me you'd have to get inside the event tracking
runloop of the menu code and somehow short circuit
that. I have to admit that I don't have a clue about Carbon (;-)), but
that's very probably what happens...
I'd look into GetMenuEventTarget and InstallEventHandler described in
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Carbon/Reference/
Carbon_Event_Manager_Ref/CarbonEventsRef/APIIndex.html
So maybe some Carbon people can elaborate...
Kay
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