Re: Writing a preference pane that configures hotkeys?

FROM : Andrew Farmer
DATE : Mon Mar 24 03:34:16 2008

On 23 Mar 08, at 19:26, Brian Kendall wrote:
> I'm trying to write a preference pane that allows the user to 
> specify a hotkey.  Ordinarily I would override sendEvent in 
> NSApplication, but since it's a preference pane that's not possible 
> in this case since the System Preferences application is already 
> instantiated.  Obviously this is possible, since many other 
> preference panes do this, including the Keyboard & Mouse pref pane. 
> What's the propper way to go about doing this?


Create a helper app that runs in the background. Preference panes only 
"exist" while they're open, so registering a hotkey there doesn't do 
you much good.