I’ve seen some things about registering a global hotkey for an application, even when the application is only in the menubar does anyone know any code I can use to register a global hotkey?
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It has been covered here before; look in the old postings.
This one perhaps?
http://macscripter.net/viewtopic.php?id=32217
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I think it came up again since then.
Couldn’t find anything else in 2010 with the keywords “global” “shortcut” and “keyboard”… I too remember something about this subject being asked a while ago…
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Well the answer seems to be that it’s going to involve some Objective-C or C code.
The addGlobalMonitorForEventsMatchingMask:handler: method of NSEvent requires blocks, so it can’t be done directly inASObjC. More to the point, it has to handle every event, so even if ASObjC could do it, overall computer responsiveness would probably take a huge hit.
The other method is a Carbon call, RegisterEventHotKey, so that means writing some C and wrapping it in Objective-C to call from ASObjC.
I’m not sure if what you’re looking for is the global event monitor, but it was discussed recently in this post: http://macscripter.net/viewtopic.php?pid=134671#p134671
Ric
I think that’s it. This is what I remembered… but would this work for a hot key like magikseb wanted to do? I guess if we used NSKeyDown and NSFlagsChanged…
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