hi all, thanks for the help
the characters message gives me the unicode output, that is working fine but i am unsure how to detect raw keys, like arrow keys, function keys, etc in carbon/event manager there was charCodeMask and keyCodeMask which determined this stuff what is the best way on cocoa to determin raw key (physical key) input? thanks, bill appleton On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 5:47 PM, Douglas Davidson <ddavi...@apple.com>wrote: > > On Apr 29, 2010, at 5:26 PM, Charles Srstka wrote: > > > On Apr 29, 2010, at 5:38 PM, Jens Alfke wrote: > > > > >> event.isARepeat; > >> } > > > > I don’t think that will do the special characters that you can type via > the Option key. What you want to do is to make your text view conform to the > NSTextInputClient protocol, which is documented here: > > > > > http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/cocoa/reference/NSTextInputClient_Protocol/Reference/Reference.html > > > > This will give you not only the option key, but also make all the > standard Mac OS text editing shortcuts work, as well as any custom key > bindings the user has defined. It’s pretty nifty, and will make your users > like your app a lot better. > > Simple keyDown: handling might do for cases where you're just interested in > keystrokes as individual events--for example, if you were using arrow keys > to move something in your UI. If you're really taking textual input, you're > going to want the full input protocols; that's how you're going to get not > only dead key support but also input from arbitrary sources such as input > methods. The easiest way to do this is to make use of an existing class > that implements them, such as NSTextView--that's how the standard Cocoa > controls do it--but it's always open to you to implement them yourself if > necessary. > > Douglas Davidson > > _______________________________________________ > > 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: > > http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/billappleton%40dreamfactory.com > > This email sent to billapple...@dreamfactory.com > _______________________________________________ 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: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
