From f9c02364f1e5f14c4c2e9cde7ed0052500f75c8d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dave DeLong Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 15:28:50 -0700 Subject: clarified the About section of the README --- README | 10 +++++++--- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/README b/README index ad95a20..0a052fb 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -2,9 +2,12 @@ DDHotKey Copyright (c) 2010, Dave DeLong **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. -- cgit v1.2.3