I think the key event is getting stolen by the first responder of whatever your key window is at the time. I did a quick test and found the menu item did not get invoked when a text view was selected but *did* get invoked when I removed the text view.
I suspect a more precise technical answer lies in the docs on keyboard event handling. See "Cocoa Event Handling Guide" => "The Path of Key Events", in particular the part about key equivalents: <https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/EventOverview/EventArchitecture/EventArchitecture.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/10000060i-CH3-SW10> A workaround would be to subclass NSApplication and override keyDown: to detect Shift-Delete. Offhand, I'd think you could do something like - (void)keyDown:(NSEvent *)theEvent { if ([self isShiftDeleteEvent:theEvent] && [[NSApp mainMenu performKeyEquivalent:theEvent]) { return; } [super keyDown:theEvent]; } But maybe someone has a better idea? --Andy On Jan 17, 2014, at 12:45 PM, Steve Mills <smi...@makemusic.com> wrote: > We have a menu item whose key equiv is shift-delete (backspace, not forward > delete). Typing that key does not even call the menu's performKeyEquivalent > method. How can we get this to work like it should? > > BTW, I've already noticed that when you set the key equiv in IB, it sets it > to 8 (Unicode backspace), but when you type that key, the character in the > event is 127 (Unicode delete). Is that the problem? The OS just doesn't know > how to map it correctly? I had to remap 127 to 8 in our NSMenu subclass' > performKeyEquivalent method in order to get command-delete to work. > > I've also tried programmatically changing the item's key equiv from 0x08 to > 0x7f after installing the menu and that didn't help. > > -- > Steve Mills _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) 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: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
