Re: Give a menu keyboard focus – in code
Re: Give a menu keyboard focus – in code
- Subject: Re: Give a menu keyboard focus – in code
- From: John Joyce <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2011 00:26:13 -0500
On Oct 9, 2011, at 10:09 PM, Jerry Krinock wrote:
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> On 2011 Oct 09, at 19:47, Graham Cox wrote:
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>> This all sounds like a generally terrible idea.
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> I think that my purpose of making my Status Item accessible from the keyboard is quite noble, but I agree that the way I'm going about it is a terrible kludge
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>> Have you checked to see whether the Accessibility APIs can give you what you want?
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> I'll look at the NSAccessibility protocol and read the Accessibility Programming Guidelines. If there are any other documents in particular I should be reading, let me know
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>> If it's for some other purpose than accessibility
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> Well, I, and many users, even though we have functioning two hands, would really like to be able to access Status Items without using the mouse. Unfortunately, the built-in F8 keyboard shortcut to "Focus on Status Items" only cycles through the *Apple* status items. (Filed a few weeks ago: Apple Bug ID #10122120).
For this reason, any menu item with a name can be assigned a keyboard shortcut in OS X System Preferences by the user.
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