I haven't been following this thread closely, so I may be talking about the wrong thing here, but I just noticed I can cycle through the status items, and some of them (e.g. istat menus and apple items) are selectable with ctrl-f8 then arrow keys, and some not (e.g. dropbox). So it seems like it's possible, in principle. Don't know if that helps.
Martin On Oct 10, 2011, at 02:02 AM, Jerry Krinock wrote: > > On 2011 Oct 09, at 22:26, John Joyce wrote: > >> For this reason, any menu item with a name can be assigned a keyboard >> shortcut in OS X System Preferences by the user. > > Thank you, John, but it doesn't work for Status Items; not for me. > > True, in System Preferences ▸ Keyboard ▸ Keyboard Shortcuts, I can create a > keyboard shortcut for any menu item with a name in the *main* menu. And the > keyboard shortcut is even shown in that menu. But it does not work for the > menus attached to non-Apple Status Items. For example, I have a Dropbox > Status Item. The first item in its menu is "Open Dropbox Folder". I just > assigned this the keyboard shortcut ⇧⌥⌘O. But the keyboard shortcut "⇧⌥⌘O" > is *not* showing in the Dropbox Status Item, and when I type ⇧⌥⌘O, all that > happens is a system alert beep. > > Actually, even if it did work, that's not what I want. Because my status > item's menu is populated dynamically, I want users to be able to navigate > through it with the arrow keys, like I can do with the Apple Status Items > after hitting the F8 key. > > Maybe there is a reason why Apple does not want non-Apple Status Items to be > accessible to non-mouse-users. > > _______________________________________________ > > Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) > > Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. > Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com > > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/martin.hewitson%40aei.mpg.de > > This email sent to martin.hewit...@aei.mpg.de ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Martin Hewitson Albert-Einstein-Institut Max-Planck-Institut fuer Gravitationsphysik und Universitaet Hannover Callinstr. 38, 30167 Hannover, Germany Tel: +49-511-762-17121, Fax: +49-511-762-5861 E-Mail: martin.hewit...@aei.mpg.de WWW: http://www.aei.mpg.de/~hewitson ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
