SwiftUI keyboard shortcuts don't become active until view loads

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Created Jul ’24

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I have a menu bar extra app that includes a sub-menu for lesser used functions. The sub menu implements .keyboardShortcut for a few of the menu items. When the app is first the active app, the keyboard shortcuts only produce a beep UNTIL the sub menu has been accessed. Once the sub-menu has loaded, the keyboard shortcuts work as expected.

I should note that the MenuBarExtra is using the .window display mode, if that's important. The submenu appears with a button press within the MenuBarExtra.

Is there a method to expose the keyboard shortcuts to the system before the view has loaded?

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ski4funSonoma OP

Jul ’24

I ended up adding commands to the main WindowGroup, and 'faking' the shortcut indicators in the sub-menu. I'm still curious, though, if there is a way to surface sub-menu keyboard shortcuts without this work-around.

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