How to get macOS keyboard shortcuts set in System Preferences programmatically?

Question

On macOS the key combination CMD+Backtick is used to cycle through the open windows of an application when using an english keyboard. On German keyboards for ex

Answer 1

I can't test right now the answer ... but I would first try to popen the defaults command like:

HFILE file;
if (!(file = popen("defaults read NSGlobalDomain NSUserKeyEquivalents", "r")))
{
    return nullptr;    
}
const int MAX_BUF_SIZE = 512;
char temp[MAX_BUF_SIZE+1] = "";
while (fgets(temp, MAX_BUF_SIZE, file) > 0)
{
    printf("%s",temp);
    memset(temp, 0, MAX_BUF_SIZE+1);
}
pclose(file);

Here I just printf its output but you will likely want to parse it.