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parallax · Mar 30, 2002, 10:10 PM

Can someone give sample parameter values for RegisterEventHotKey()?

I'm trying to use hotkeys in my cocoa app (running a carbon loop in another thread) but I'm getting paramErrs for this call. Help!

Angus_D · Mar 31, 2002, 04:07 AM

I don't think you can from Cocoa... I'm pretty sure someone said you can't, but I haven't tried it myself.

parallax · Mar 31, 2002, 09:39 AM

Well, I tried it, and it seemed to work to some degree, but I don't know how to capture the hotkey event. When I put in some bad pointers and type in the hotkey the program crashes (so I assume its receiving the hotkey), but I'm not sure which EventTypeSpec to use to capture it properly.

parallax · Mar 31, 2002, 10:03 AM

lol, nevermind. kEventHotKeyPressed, Heh, that helps.

Anyway, for those of you that want to use HotKeys in Cocoa, it is possible using Carbon Events (setting up a Carbon event loop). I'll release the code in some wrapper so you all can use it easily.