Re: Best practice for hidden keyboard shortcuts

FROM : David Spooner
DATE : Fri Nov 02 19:21:30 2007

You may be able to implement the methods in a higher-level responder; 
this leaves you with the problem of how to distribute the messages to 
the appropriate views, but you will also have to do that if you take 
the -sendEvent: route...

dave

On 2-Nov-07, at 11:38 AM, Philip Dow wrote:

> Ah, I failed to mention that the views upon which the key 
> equivalents act are not necessarily in focus, so they won't receive 
> the keyDown events.
>
> -Phil
>
> On Nov 2, 2007, at 9:49 AM, David Spooner wrote:
>

>> Phil,
>>
>> I had written a class of view which implements arbitrary key 
>> equivalents (with some exceptions, like cmd-tab) by overriding both 
>> -performKeyEquivalent: and -keyDown: -- I don't recall the 
>> specifics, but I know that both methods are called in different 
>> circumstances...
>>
>> dave
>>