Drawing strings from a menu item's keyEquivalent
Drawing strings from a menu item's keyEquivalent
- Subject: Drawing strings from a menu item's keyEquivalent
- From: Steve Mills <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 31 May 2013 11:36:26 -0500
My custom menu item view is coming along nicely, except when it comes to Unicode key equivs such as used for the Home key (north west arrow \u2196). When I ask the item for its keyEquivalent, the string has the character \uf729 instead. Inspecting the .xib I see it has the utf8 value EF 9C A9 (same as \uf729, which is in the PUA). Why is this? How can I draw the key equiv correctly? Am I going to have to find the values of all these non-Roman keys and map the value from the menu item to the actual printable glyph? This menu Cocoa menu stuff is pretty neat, but *man* is it lacking in customizability.
There's also no NSColor method for getting disabled menu item text color, so I had to waste time trying different values until I found something that matches.
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Steve Mills
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