> On Mar 13, 2017, at 17:12, Frank D. Engel, Jr. <fde...@fjrhome.net> 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. > > 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. > > 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. > > > 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 _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
