Set hotkey combo programatically

[c-alpha]

Hi @Kentzo, many thanks for your modernisation efforts!

I am currently converting a project which used @ChrisForsythe's initial ShortcutRecorder to now use your new incarnation. It's a plugin for Apple's Mail.app, and I am hence handling the prefs file manually to make sure I don't "pollute" Apple's prefs file but store stuff in a separate file. Hence, I'm not binding to a NSUserDefaultsController, but need to set and get the hotkey and modifier flags between my SRRecorderControl and NSUserDefaults instances manually.

I can infer any new shortcut that was entered in the -shortcutRecorderDidEndRecording: delegate method by inspecting the objectValue just fine.

What I am lacking is a way of setting the hotkey and modifier when Mail.app is started and the plugin gets loaded, so that when the UI is opened for the first time, it shows the values that were read from the prefs file. With the old SRRecorderControl, I would do something like this:

KeyCombo    hotkeyCombo;
hotkeyCombo.flags = [m_settings getHotKeyModifierFlags];
hotkeyCombo.code  = [m_settings getHotKey];
[hotkeyController setKeyCombo:hotkeyCombo];

But with your new code I don't seem to be able to achieve something similar?

The SRRecorderControl is created by code generated by Interface Builder, so in case you should eye adding a new method for this, it cannot be any sort of init method, but should be a dedicated one. Off the top of my head, - (void) setCodeAndFlags:(NSDictionary*)hotkey could e.g. spring to mind.

[c-alpha]

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The SRRecorderControl is created by code generated by Interface Builder, so in case you should eye adding a new method for this, it cannot be any sort of init method, but should be a dedicated one. Off the top of my head, - (void) setCodeAndFlags:(NSDictionary*)hotkey could e.g. spring to mind.

Actually, rethinking it, it would seem that something along the lines of - (void) setCode:(NSInteger)newCode andFlags:(NSUInteger)newFlags could make more sense; wouldn't require me to furnish stuff that's palatable to ShortcutRecorder 2's internal workings.

[Kentzo]

@c-alpha The control supports Cocoa bindings so you should use setObjectValue: where objectValue is a dict created with SRShortcutWithCocoaModifierFlagsAndKeyCode or manually populated.