Implement RegisterHotKey for operating systems other than Windows

[Q]

There are a few platform-specific methods for obtaining this functionality--many of these, such as using PyObjC and the Mac OSX Native hotkey event code are incompatible with WX as they require their own event loop be run in the main thread. I ask that the WX version of RegisterHotKey is updated to work on OSX and X11.

[vadz]

Pointers to the documentation about implementing this functionality would be welcome.

[Q]

Here is a link to registration of global hotkeys on OSX using Objective C: ​http://snippets.aktagon.com/snippets/361-Registering-global-hot-keys-with-Cocoa-and-Objective-C
I have been unable to find specific reference code for X11, simply confirmations that is possible using xlib. Thank you very much for your time and assistance with this.

[seanybob]

Google groups thread that referred me here:
​http://groups.google.com/group/wx-users/browse_thread/thread/baa9cdc7d251ce7a#

Code suggested in thread that might help for OSX:
​http://visor.binaryage.com/

Sadly, I can't help much with this, being MAC/ObjC-challenged myself. Just wanted to let people know that there is an active interest in this feature from the community though, if someone has the ability to add it.

[vadz]

FWIW this seems pretty straightforward to do so anybody minimally fluent in C* should be able to add implementation of this without too much problems... I might do it myself in the future but I have a lot of higher priority tickets to look at first so please don't hesitate to preempt me.

[ronarts12]

I'd like to add a me too... I'll look into adding the functionality myself if I find the time to learn about OSX development...

[seanybob]

Just wanted to make sure this ticket's existence is still known. I see that Csomor accepted it but haven't seen any updates in a couple months (Not intending to be rude, but just checking in - I'm sure Csomor is a busy guy!)

[SC]

(In [67574]) implementation of HotKey, see #12354

[csomor]

please - everybody who was interested in this - test the current implementation and report back - thanks

[robind]

There does not appear to be a way to turn on wxUSE_HOTKEY via configure.

[VZ]

(In [68968]) Add wxUSE_HOTKEY support to configure.

Add --enable-hotkey switch to allow enabling hot keys support and enable it by
default under MSW and OS X that do support them but disable it elsewhere to
avoid unnecessary warnings about them being unsupported.

See #12354.

[robind]

It seems to be working well, at least on wxOSX-Cocoa, so I'll go ahead and close this ticket.

My test case is here: ​http://trac.wxwidgets.org/browser/wxPython/trunk/sandbox/test_hotkey.py

[HighCommander4]

Does this remain unimplemented on Linux? It's not clear, as the bug title talks about "operating systems other than Windows", but the linked patches only refer to OS X.

[Vadim Zeitlin <vadim@…>]

In ad92074535daaeb4ccd2870a1f36e580d24472bc/git-wxWidgets:

Update RegisterHotKey() documentation to mention OS X support.

This function is implemented in wxOSX too, not just wxMSW.

See #12354.

[vadz]

Yes, it's still not implemented in wxGTK, but I don't know how to implement it there.