Re: Simulating menu bar blink in Cocoa

FROM : Benjamin Stiglitz
DATE : Sat Apr 19 23:42:22 2008

>>> If I understand well, your trying to catch event that match a menu 
>>> item shortcut minus the shift key. Isn't it possible to override -
>>> [NSApp sendEvent:] as you did, but instead of taking care of the 
>>> event yourself, create a new event that match the menu item and 
>>> then call super with this new event ?

>
> - (void)sendEvent:(NSEvent *)theEvent {
>     if ([theEvent isAnHotkeyEvent]) {
>         theEvent = [NSEvent eventWithTheKeystrokeAppKitWant];
>     }
>     [super sendEvent:theEvent];
> }
>
>
> I really don't know if it works, but it worth the try.


That’s a pretty common way to do it, and avoids the need to duplicate 
the actual method dispatch. Works great.

-Ben_______________________________________________

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