How can I detect that option key is pressed when a menu is selected, to:
- change menu title
- perform a specific action
Apple doc on this is really below minimum (useless):
Managing Alternates
var isAlternate: Bool
A Boolean value that marks the menu item as an alternate to the previous menu item.More generally, I would like to set a global value each time the altrenate key is pressed in my app.
How can I detect that option key is pressed when a menu is selected, to:
That’s not how you generally do things. Rather, you create multiple menu items next to each other in the menu bar, with all but the first having the
isAlternateTo see this in action:
Create a new project from the Cocoa Application template
In the main menu, select Paste and Match Style and check Alternate in the Attributes inspector
Run the app
When you bring down the edit menu, you’ll just see Paste
If you press command-shift, it’ll change to Paste and Match Style
Share and Enjoy
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Quinn “The Eskimo!”
Apple Developer Relations, Developer Technical Support, Core OS/Hardware
let myEmail = "eskimo" + "1" + "@apple.com"I'd like to do this in SwiftUI and macOS. I can change menus in response to state, but I need a nice way to globally observe the option key.
Actually I take that back. Even if I can observe option key state, if I change state when the menu is open, the menu just closes, instead of rebuilding and displaying, which would give the AppKit-like behavior.
How can I detect that option key is pressed when a menu is selected, to:
That’s not how you generally do things. Rather, you create multiple menu items next to each other in the menu bar, with all but the first having the
isAlternateTo see this in action:
Create a new project from the Cocoa Application template
In the main menu, select Paste and Match Style and check Alternate in the Attributes inspector
Run the app
When you bring down the edit menu, you’ll just see Paste
If you press command-shift, it’ll change to Paste and Match Style
Share and Enjoy
—
Quinn “The Eskimo!”
Apple Developer Relations, Developer Technical Support, Core OS/Hardware
let myEmail = "eskimo" + "1" + "@apple.com"I'd like to do this in SwiftUI and macOS. I can change menus in response to state, but I need a nice way to globally observe the option key.
Actually I take that back. Even if I can observe option key state, if I change state when the menu is open, the menu just closes, instead of rebuilding and displaying, which would give the AppKit-like behavior.
Excellent.
As it is possible to select which modifier key will triger this.