[TxMt] ctrl+esc debug

[Allan Odgaard]

On 6. Oct 2006, at 02:52, Fred B wrote:

> I can't bind a bundle item to ⌃⎋.
> Maybe something eats ⌃⎋ before TM, although I can't see what.

Another user who has the problem (on one of his machines) tried this  
program [1] and it did not report a key stroke on ⌃⎋.

[1] http://www.petermaurer.de/nasi.php?thema=keycodes&sprache=english

> [...] Key binding is a mysterious science. ;)

Indeed -- many keys are “lost” when dealing with normal first  
responder stuff in Cocoa, for that reason bundle items have the  
sendEvent: method of the application object overloaded (so that  
“all” keys are available) -- this is AFAIK the most low-level you  
can get with Cocoa and key events, so if bundle items can’t bind  
to ⌃⎋, then there is really not much to do about the issue.

We should maybe make a poll for hardware/OS to see if we can find a  
pattern. So far I’m aware of 3 users (including you) which have the  
problem, one of them only on his PowerBook.