Hello, I have an issue with application menus. I'm losing menu key equivalents to system short cuts and I'm not sure why. Reading the Services Implementation Guide, it states "When an application already has a shortcut with that key equivalent, the application’s shortcut wins" and this is true when my application launches. However during the course of using the application, I lose those key equivalents.
I've determined, generally, when this happens, so let me give a brief explanation on how our application behaves. Upon launch, our menus and key equivalents are fine, but user actions can cause our application to switch into a different mode or state. To accommodate this state, we remove all menus (File, Edit, etc ) between the Application menu and the Help menu and replace with menus that are more appropriate for that state. Upon installation of the new menus, they lose their key equivalents to the system short cuts. For instance, we have a key equivalent command-shift-y. We lose this to Make New Stick Note if the key equivalent for that short cut is enabled. If short cut is not enabled in the system preferences, our menu retains that key equivalent. By removing the top level menus during the course of execution, does this free those key equivalents for the system to use? How can I go about determining which accelerators are reserved by my application? This does not happen on Leopard and I suspect this is the case because system services did not have accelerators in Leopard? I guess I'm having difficulty debugging this because the system is taking them and I get no console message when my equivalents cannot be installed and it seems to be contrary to what is stated in the guides. So, if anyone can give me any tips for debugging this or explain to me what I've done wrong, it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list ([email protected]) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [email protected]
