Simple global shortcuts in macOS. HotKey wraps the Carbon APIs for dealing with global hot keys to make it easy to use in Swift.
HotKey, along with Color, were created for use in Contrast,a macOS app for checking designs for accessible color combinations.
Simply initlaize a HotKey with a key and modifiers:
// Setup hot key for ⌥⌘R
let hotKey = HotKey(key: .r, modifiers: [.command, .option])This is a convenice initializer that creates a KeyCombo for you. You can also initialize with a Carbon key code and Carbon modifier flags if you’re feeling old school.
Now you can set the keyDownHandler and get callbacks for when your hot key is pressed:
hotKey.keyDownHandler = {
print("Pressed at \(Date())")
}You can also implement hotKey.keyUpHandler if you’d like.
You don’t need to think about when handlers are registered and unregistered. This all happens automatically based on the HotKey object’s lifecycle.
HotKey was heavily inspired by PTHotKey.