This is how I do it in the application delegate's 
applicationDidFinishLaunching: implementation...

UInt32  modifiers = GetCurrentKeyModifiers();
if ( modifiers & shiftKey ) {
        // handle shift key...
}

-Ken


On Jun 24, 2011, at 12:19 AM, Bernard Desgraupes wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I need to detect if the shift key is pressed by the user during the startup 
> of my app. How would I do that in Cocoa (targetting 10.5 and greater) ?
> 
> The following QA seems inspiring
> http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#qa/qa1519/_index.html
> but I don't know where to install this flagsChanged method and I can't find 
> the key code for the Shift modifier.
> 
> Thanks for any help,
> Bernard

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