Re: Drawing strings from a menu item's keyEquivalent
Re: Drawing strings from a menu item's keyEquivalent
- Subject: Re: Drawing strings from a menu item's keyEquivalent
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Sat, 01 Jun 2013 14:19:14 +0900
On 2013/06/01, at 13:08, Ken Thomases <email@hidden> wrote:
> On May 31, 2013, at 11:36 AM, Steve Mills wrote:
>
>> 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?
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> That's the value of NSHomeFunctionKey.
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>> 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?
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> Probably.
Definitely.
The character pallet will help.
You can actually put those characters in a string literal or in a strings file.
But most keyboards don't have the glyphs for them and most people won't recognize them.
The System Preferences keyboard shortcut settings don't even display them that way.
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