Re: Menu Item Shortcuts Without Menu Items?
Re: Menu Item Shortcuts Without Menu Items?
- Subject: Re: Menu Item Shortcuts Without Menu Items?
- From: Steve Mills <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2017 17:50:53 -0500
> On Mar 13, 2017, at 17:12, Frank D. Engel, Jr. <email@hidden> wrote:
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> I need to create the equivalent of a menu item shortcut, but without the menu item... or, to assign two different shortcuts to the same menu item.
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> More precisely: I have a menu item with a shortcut of Command+L.
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> I need Command+Shift+L to do exactly the same thing, but it doesn't look right having two copies of the menu item just to support a second shortcut.
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> This needs to work across multiple windows of the application, and there are enough distinct types that it would be annoying to need to create and maintain a separate implementation of a solution for each separate window.
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> Anyone know how I might be able to pull this off? Neither the NSApplication nor the NSDocument seem to receive the "performKeyEquivalent:" method, so not quite sure where to go with this one.
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> Note that I am doing this because of interfacing with an external controller which, because of the way I am hoping to rig this to behave in a reasonable way, will sometimes send the keystroke with and sometimes without the shift - this is an implementation detail that I don't expect the user to be aware of (if they happen to hold down shift while hitting Command+L... I don't particularly care - won't really matter :-)
Add a second item as an Alternate item and give it command-shift-L.
Steve via iPad
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