Why does menu item with shift-delete not work?

2014-01-17 Thread Steve Mills
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

Re: Why does menu item with shift-delete not work?

2014-01-17 Thread Andy Lee
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

Re: Why does menu item with shift-delete not work?

2014-01-17 Thread Steve Mills
On Jan 17, 2014, at 13:34:08, Andy Lee ag...@mac.com wrote: 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