Re: intercepting keydowns

FROM : Satoshi Matsumoto
DATE : Sat Apr 02 22:35:37 2005

on 05.4.3 1:59 AM, Roland Silver at <email_removed> wrote:
> I have a simple Cocoa application with a controller and a window with
> an NSTextView. I want to intercept keydown events on their way to the
> text view, process them with a function or method, and send a possibly
> different keydown event on to the text view.
> Nothing I try works.
> Any suggestions?


Subclass NSTextView and override following method.

- (void)keyDown:(NSEvent *)theEvent

And if you wish to intercept  all key events including all menu short cuts,
subclass NSApplication and override following method.

- (void)sendEvent:(NSEvent *)theEvent

Satoshi
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