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Re: -[NSMenuItem setKeyEquivalent] not working for some keys
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Re: -[NSMenuItem setKeyEquivalent] not working for some keys


  • Subject: Re: -[NSMenuItem setKeyEquivalent] not working for some keys
  • From: Ken Victor <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 09:06:25 -0700

mike,
thanx for the reply.

i should have mentioned in my first email that i checked system prefs custom keyboard shortcuts and quickeys as one of my first explorations. also, i can set shortcuts of command 1-4 for xcode preferences. so its some combination of my user account and my app.

ken



At 11:46 AM +0100 10/19/06, Mike Abdullah wrote:
OS X offers the ability for you to set custom keyboard shortcuts for any menu in any app. Perhaps something is overriding things?

Mike.

On 18 Oct 2006, at 21:22, Ken Victor wrote:

the app i'm developing lets users specify the keyboard shortcuts to use for menu items. this has been working for several months now. however, i noticed yesterday that if i attempt to set a shortcut (via -[NSMenuItem setKeyEquivalent]) of command-1 / command-2 / command-3 / command-4 it no longer "takes".

while debugging, i've discovered the following: if i examine the menu item before and after calling setKeyEquivalent, i see the private iVar _keyEquivalent changing properly. however if i "po [menuItem keyEquivalent]" from the debugger console window the debugger prints out <object returned empty description> and the menu does not show the shortcut as being set. (note that i do also use setKeyEquivalentModifierMask to set the appropriate mask.)

i can set shortcuts to other command-<X> (where X is anything but 1, 2, 3, or 5) and if i set a shortcut to use modifier keys other than or in conjunction with the command key it also works. additonally, if i set menu item shortcuts in IB, it works fine for command 1-4/

now i know (after many frustrating hours of various debugging and testing) that this has something to do with my user account, because if i login as a different user or boot from a different partition, the problem goes away. i also know that this is not related to any of my login startup items (as set in system prefs for my account) because if i remove all of them the problem persists.

has anyone encountered anything like this before?

can anyone suggest how i can find this problem? or point me to some documentation as to how to find the problem?

thanx very much,
ken

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