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A good way to create a shortcut selection field for use in a Mac app?

I need to have a way for the user to input a shortcut key combination in my Preferences and I'm looking to do something that works similar to how the System Preferences keyboard shortcut panel works.

I thought about subclassing an NSTextField and override keyDown: and keyUp: but it seems these overrides do nothing... any hints?

Alternatively is there a control kit or some technique that everyone is using and I haven't heard of? Quite a few applications implement a similar behavior albeit with some slight "look-and-feel" differences.

+4  A: 

Check out Shortcut Recorder.

Dave DeLong  2009-10-19 19:16:23
Yea, Shortcut Recorder is the way to go.
Leibowitzn  2009-10-19 19:24:35
Perfect! That's exactly what I need. Thanks!
Form  2009-10-19 19:39:05

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