Re: [gtk-osx-users] command-h to hide app?

[John Ralls <jralls ceridwen us>]

On Oct 14, 2013, at 12:31 PM, Allin Cottrell <cottrell wfu edu> wrote:

> On Mon, 14 Oct 2013, John Ralls wrote:
>
> > On Oct 14, 2013, at 10:51 AM, Allin Cottrell <cottrell wfu edu> wrote:
> >
> > > Using gtkosxapplication, I get a "Hide <app>" item under my app's top-of-screen Mac menu, and this works 
> > > fine if moused. However, it shows an accelerator of command-h and that doesn't work. [...]
>
> > Hide and Hide Others are Apple functions, not Gtk ones, so the accelerators only work if 
> > use-quartz-accelerators is enabled. It isn't by default because it messes up the responder chain for key 
> > bindings by grabbing the accelerator event before it's passed to Gtk. I suppose the fix is to add 
> > corresponding GtkActions that call [theApp hide:] and [theApp hideOtherApplications:] to catch the 
> > accelerators.
>
> Thanks, John. I added a function to gtkosxapplication_quartz.c as follows:
>
> /**
> * gtkosx_application_hide:
> * @self: The GtkosxApplication object
> *
> * Tell OS X to hide the application.
> */
> void
> gtkosx_application_hide (GtkosxApplication *self)
> {
>  [NSApp hide: self];
> }
>
> and it seems to work fine, when hooked up to command-h in my GTK app.
> (I tried just doing [NSApp hide] first but that produced a crash).
>
> Might this be worth adding to the library?

Yes, but a bit differently, so as not to add to the API.

Regards,
John Ralls