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@@ -2,9 +2,12 @@ DDHotKey Copyright (c) 2010, Dave DeLong <http://www.davedelong.com> **About** -DDHotKey is an easy-to-use Cocoa wrapper around Carbon's global hotkeys, since no Cocoa equivalent -exists. The purpose of DDHotKey is to provide as simple an interface as possible to creating and -removing global hotkeys. +DDHotKey is an easy-to-use Cocoa class for registering an application to respond to system key +events, or "hotkeys". + +A global hotkey is a key combination that always executes a specific action, regardless of +which app is frontmost. For example, the Mac OS X default hotkey of "command-space" shows the +Spotlight search bar, even if Finder is not the frontmost application. **License** The license for this framework is included in every source file, and is repoduced in its entirety @@ -20,6 +23,7 @@ in the software. **How to use** First, your application will need to link against Carbon.framework. + When you wish to create a hotkey, you'll need to do so via a DDHotKeyCenter object. You may alloc/init and release a DDHotKeyCenter object at anytime; it is merely an accessor to a static NSSet, which holds the hotkeys in global memory. |