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scribly

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Global hotkey
« on: March 31, 2020, 10:32:25 am »
I'd like to register a hotkey (e.g cmd+alt+Q)" that will do a specific action in my application when pressed, even when my app isn't in the foreground.
Is that possible? I checked out getKeyState but that only gets modifiers
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Re: Global hotkey
« Reply #1 on: March 31, 2020, 12:29:56 pm »
This Apple documentation may be of help.
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Re: Global hotkey
« Reply #2 on: March 31, 2020, 11:49:13 pm »
I managed to get it to work with Install(Application)EventHandler, and RegisterEventHotkey
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Re: Global hotkey
« Reply #3 on: April 01, 2020, 02:17:08 am »
I may be wrong, but isn't RegisterEventHotkey from the 32 bit Carbon framework? In which case it will not work after Mojave...
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Re: Global hotkey
« Reply #4 on: April 01, 2020, 09:01:24 am »
I'm on catalina and it still works. It's one of the functions that they kept functional in 64-bit
« Last Edit: April 01, 2020, 09:03:49 am by scribly »
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Re: Global hotkey
« Reply #5 on: April 01, 2020, 12:47:45 pm »
Good to know.
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