[gralem]

I want to take a keyboard equiv for an NSButton in a nib. When I look at the NSButton Info box for attributes, you can see the "equiv" box. This can be set to a keystroke ("z" or "apple-9" or "opt-t") or to special keys. But these keys can only be Return/Delete/Escape/Tab.

I would like to trap ENTER specifically, but would probably also like to trap backspace or function keys. Is the only way to do this by subclassing NSWindow to get keyDown and then parse out what keys you want?

---gralem

[bewebste]

You can set the key equivalent programmatically in your controller's awakeFromNib method.

-(void)awakeFromNib
{
unichar keyEquiv = NSDeleteCharacter;
NSString *equivString = [NSString stringWithCharacters:&keyEquiv length:1];
[myButton setKeyEquivalent:equivString];
}

Look in NSEvent.h and NSText.h for list of unicode values for special characters like delete and the function keys.