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Asked: 2026-05-28T01:15:31+00:00

I just ran into a problem I already know from other programming languages/frameworks ….

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I just ran into a problem I already know from other programming languages/frameworks ….
Whenever the user clicks a certain button on the keyboard, he triggers the same action than when a certain button in the GUI is pressed. ( Some guys call these “shortcuts” ;D )

To give the user an optical feedback, I would like to sorta “click” the button programmatically rather than calling the same functions that get called when the button is clicked.

If I set the button as a key equivalent in IB, it looks exactly as I want to have it.
Can’t do that here as the shortcut should just be enabled if the right textfields have focus.

Couldn’t find a method in NSButton or similar that sounded right.
I’m sure you guys can give me some direction!

Best and thanks in advance

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  1. Editorial Team

    You can just send performClick: to the button. It will highlight itself, send its action to its target, and then unhighlight itself.

    [self.someButton performClick:self];

    If you really want to just highlight and unhighlight the button manually, you can use the highlight: method.

    [self.someButton highlight:YES]; // button appears pressed
[self.someButton highlight:NO]; // button appears unpressed
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