Do you know which system-wide shortcuts OS X traps? Cmd-H is the one I found (Hide Apps) and Cmd-Q (for which there is a LC solution). I'm wondering which other ones we might get stung on. Are you aware of a list of these traps?
On Sat, Nov 7, 2015 at 10:54 AM, J. Landman Gay <jac...@hyperactivesw.com> wrote: > OS X traps and responds to its own system-wide shortcuts and does not pass > them on to the app, so LC won't know about those. > > But Cmd-Q behaves slightly differently. OS X does notify the app so it can > put up save dialogs or do other housekeeping. If Cmd-Q isn't working, then > there is probably something in your app that prevents it from quitting, > like pending messages, open drivers, not passing "shutdownRequest", etc. > > > On 11/6/2015 4:20 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: > >> It's my understanding that with OS X you cannot do this. I would like to >> make a quit hotkey so users can quit my application, but I cannot seem to >> get that to work. >> >> Bob S >> >> >> On Nov 6, 2015, at 13:56 , Howard Bornstein <bornst...@designeq.com >> <mailto:bornst...@designeq.com>> wrote: >> >> I want to command-H for a menu item in my standalone, but it doesn't work >> because the system uses command-H for Hide Application. Even though I've >> assigned this shortcut to a menu item, it is ignored and the system >> command >> is used instead. >> >> It seems like this should be simple but I can't figure out how to get >> around this problem. Is there a way to override system shortcuts in an OSX >> standalone application? >> >> -- >> Regards, >> >> Howard Bornstein >> >> _______________________________________________ >> use-livecode mailing list >> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >> subscription preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode >> >> > > -- > Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com > HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > -- Regards, Howard Bornstein ----------------------- www.designeq.com _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
