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Re: Menu Item Shortcuts Without Menu Items?
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Re: Menu Item Shortcuts Without Menu Items?


  • Subject: Re: Menu Item Shortcuts Without Menu Items?
  • From: Kyle Sluder <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2017 14:12:27 -0600


On Mon, Mar 13, 2017, at 04:50 PM, Ken Thomases wrote:
> On Mar 13, 2017, at 5:12 PM, Frank D. Engel, Jr. <email@hidden>
> wrote:
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > More precisely: I have a menu item with a shortcut of Command+L.
> >
> > 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.
>
> Mark the second menu item as an alternate.  That is, set its "alternate"
> property to true.  It will "hide" in the same slot of the menu as the
> other item and only show when the extra modifier (Shift, in this case) is
> pressed.

One downside of this approach might be that the menu item appears twice
in VoiceOver. (I haven’t tried it myself.)

A more targeted approach might be to attach a delegate to the menu that
contains the aliased item, and implement
-menuHasKeyEquivalent:forEvent:target:action: to return the Command+L
menu item’s target and action if it sees Command+Shift+L.

--Kyle Sluder

>
> Cheers,
> Ken

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