Menu-specific menu item Keyboard Shortcuts

in Aperture, there are two menu items called Stack. I want to customise the shortcuts but to create a shortcut for the second instance of Stack, I need to specify the Menu that contains it.
does anyone know how to specify a menu:menuitem shortcut?

Some shortcuts can be assigned with Apple menu -> System Preferences -> Keyboard and Mouse.
Others though if not available through the preferences of the application may need to be assigned through a macro utility like Startly's QuicKeys:
http://www.cesoft.com/products/qkx.html
You may find other cheaper macro utilities on http://guide.apple.com/ , http://www.versiontracker.com/ , or http://www.macupdate.com/

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Reluctant as I am to contradict Viking OS X, yes it is possible.
This is for Yosemite, it is slightly different in other versions of OS X.
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NB that PDF… has to be typed with ALL CAPS and the ellipsis is option ; or copy from here. It has to be literally what is in the menu.
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Hi, Photomagneto! Welcome to the forums.
Like you mentioned, there are a TON of keyboard shortcuts in Photoshop, which makes it very difficult to assign new features a shortcut. However, there is a nice feature that allows you to create your own!
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Hello,
Post in the iTunes Forum: http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=789
Check out the AppleScript Forum also: http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=724
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when I disable a (super-) menu item, the submenu-items are grayed out as expected. But they still accept their keyboard- shortcuts. Is this a bug in LV? If I explicitly disable the submenu- items, all works fine, but the simple method would be nicer and comprehensibly.
I made a VI to illustrate.
Greets, Dave
Message Edited by daveTW on 05-11-2006 01:56 PM
Greets, Dave
Attachments:
Menu with shortcuts.zip ‏37 KB

Hi Dave,
it seems a bit strange but at the end it is a absolutely correct behaviour. If you deactivate a menu item than all sub-menu items are deactivated in the menu bar. But that is only a feature of the menu bar. To disable the short cut you have to deactivate the sub-menu item itself. In you zip-file the <STRG - C> is deactivated but the <STRG - V> still works. That depends on the settings in your test3.vi where you defined the items to be disabled. If you add "Paste" to the array of items or if you disable all items then the shortcuts will be disabled as well.
Best regards,
Carsten Sprung
Application Engineer
National Instruments Germany

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http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=7932030#7932030

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