Comments on: Program Global Hotkeys in Cocoa Easily

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links for 2009-11-04 | manicwave.com — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:03:26 +0000

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By: giandrea77

giandrea77 — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 17:08:49 +0000

Thank you very much!!!! You have saved my weekend!!!!!

By: Shina

Shina — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 04:25:07 +0000

This is a cool tutorial. I am working on a application, where-in cmd+shift+3 and cmd+shift+4 needs to overridden. Please let me know if there is any way to achieve this functionality.

By: Global Hotkeys – Trouble with sizeof EventHotKeyRef : 38636

Global Hotkeys – Trouble with sizeof EventHotKeyRef : 38636 — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 23:57:34 +0000

[...] have not tried going the pure-Carbon route (e.g., as described here http://dbachrach.com/blog/2005/11/program-global-hotkeys-in-cocoa-easily/ ), as I am hoping to find a workaround that lets me stay with the (in my opinion) simpler Cocoa [...]

By: Bryan

Bryan — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 15:59:03 +0000

Thank you very much for writing this guide. I’m just starting with Cocoa (old hand with MFC and Motif though…) and I was not happy when I found out that Cocoa did not have global hotkeys. I really didn’t want to learn Carbon at all. Your guide sure saved me a lot of stress and time.

Thanks again!

By: Phil

Phil — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 06:19:27 +0000

Objective-C is a _superset_ of C.

By: Cocoa is for You, Indie Developers: Taste the Chocolate » Dustin Bachrach Blog

Wed, 25 Jul 2007 00:57:41 +0000

[...] their features into it. There are still certain things that can be only done in C. For instance, my tutorial on how to do global hotkeys utilizes a Carbon API. Since we’re using Objective-C, it’s [...]

By: Justin

Justin — Thu, 31 May 2007 02:19:23 +0000

First great write up, EXACTLY what I needed.
Here’s a question: how to catch/trigger when the button being held down?

By: Charlie Monroe

Charlie Monroe — Sun, 13 May 2007 08:33:45 +0000

Hey, cool tutorial! Thanks a lot!

To Jerome:

You either pass (void*)self as a parameter, or (much simpler) you use notifications. This way all parts of your project can receive the hot key notif.

Cheers,

Charlie

By: Stepan

Stepan — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 20:50:05 +0000

Thank you very much! I’ve found all I wanted!