Changing Services HotKey at Runtime

• Xavier Snark Changing Services HotKey at Runtime Nov 19 2008, 13:49
  Greetings,
  
  In my application I would like to change the Services Hotkey combination
  at runtime. So far, the only Apple documentation that I have found states
  that the hotkey is configured via the Info.plist file in the application
  bundle.
  
  http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/SysServices/Conce
  pts/properties.html
  
  Changing the application bundle at runtime will violate code-sign.
  
  I've been told my responses to a previous question that I should be
  setting user configurable data in defaults. That's fine, (I'm already
  using it for other user-configurable parameters), but I can't find any
  information that discusses how to use defaults as a means to configure
  Services parameters. Can anyone direct me to documentation for this?
  
  X
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• Peter Ammon Re: Changing Services HotKey at Runtime Nov 19 2008, 22:30
  On Nov 19, 2008, at 4:49 AM, Xavier Snark wrote:
  
  

  > Greetings,
  >
  > In my application I would like to change the Services Hotkey
  > combination at runtime. So far, the only Apple documentation that I
  > have found states that the hotkey is configured via the Info.plist
  > file in the application bundle.
  >
  > http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/SysServices/Conce
  pts/properties.html
  >
  > Changing the application bundle at runtime will violate code-sign.
  >
  > I've been told my responses to a previous question that I should be
  > setting user configurable data in defaults. That's fine, (I'm
  > already using it for other user-configurable parameters), but I
  > can't find any information that discusses how to use defaults as a
  > means to configure Services parameters. Can anyone direct me to
  > documentation for this?
  >
  > X
  

  
  Users can use the keyboard pref pane to change the key equivalent for
  any menu item.  There's no programmatic access to it however.
  
  -Peter
• Jean-Daniel Dupas Re: Changing Services HotKey at Runtime Nov 19 2008, 23:13
  Le 19 nov. 08 à 22:30, Peter Ammon a écrit :
  
  

  >
  > On Nov 19, 2008, at 4:49 AM, Xavier Snark wrote:
  >
  >> Greetings,
  >>
  >> In my application I would like to change the Services Hotkey
  >> combination at runtime. So far, the only Apple documentation that I
  >> have found states that the hotkey is configured via the Info.plist
  >> file in the application bundle.
  >>
  >> http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/SysServices/Conce
  pts/properties.html
  >>
  >> Changing the application bundle at runtime will violate code-sign.
  >>
  >> I've been told my responses to a previous question that I should be
  >> setting user configurable data in defaults. That's fine, (I'm
  >> already using it for other user-configurable parameters), but I
  >> can't find any information that discusses how to use defaults as a
  >> means to configure Services parameters. Can anyone direct me to
  >> documentation for this?
  >>
  >> X
  >
  > Users can use the keyboard pref pane to change the key equivalent
  > for any menu item.  There's no programmatic access to it however.
  >
  > -Peter
  

  
  This technic has some drawback. It's system locale dependend. That's
  not important when you want to change one specific App menu item, but
  for a service, it may appear with a different label depending the
  front application language (which append frequently on non English
  system, for example when you use Xcode).