MASShortcutView doesn't allow Function keys? about masshortcut

[shpakovski]

Hi Matt, you are correct. Standard function keys are not allowed by default. It turned out that system functions like Dashboard may use hardware keys i.e. F12. So I excluded them to avoid interference.

If you really need them, please consider to modify an appropriate method in MASShortcutView.m. Sorry for inconvenience :)

EDIT: Actually you would modify -[MASShortcut hasRequiredModifiers]. This method requires at least one modifier to be presented in a hotkey. I will look into this more when I get home.

[karstenBriksoft]

there's a distinction between function keys and keys for the dashboard, volume and brightness. Per default you have the special keys enabled and if you want to access the function keys, you need to press the fn-key. In the system Preferences you can toggle the behavior to use the special keys when you press the fn-key.
So actually you don't have to disable Function Keys at all.

Karsten

Am 25.08.2012 um 18:39 schrieb Vadim Shpakovski [email protected]:

Hi Matt, you are correct. Standard function keys are not allowed by default. It turned out that system functions like Dashboard may use hardware keys i.e. F12. So I excluded them to avoid interference.

If you really need them, please consider to modify an appropriate method in MASShortcut.m. Sorry for inconvenience :)

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[shpakovski]

Okay, I figured out why I had excluded Function keys initially. In the System Preferences > Mission Control pane, there are default keyboard shortcuts for Show Desktop (F11) and Show Dashboard (F12). I always thought that you cannot configure them, but it seems that OS X intercepts them before AppKit. So I enabled Function keys, please pull the recent changes. Thanks a lot for the problem report guys!