How to listen to global hotkeys with Swift in a macOS app?

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Since Swift 2.0, you can now pass a function pointer to C APIs.

var gMyHotKeyID = EventHotKeyID()
gMyHotKeyID.signature = OSType("swat".fourCharCodeValue)
gMyHotKeyID.id = UInt32(keyCode)

var eventType = EventTypeSpec()
eventType.eventClass = OSType(kEventClassKeyboard)
eventType.eventKind = OSType(kEventHotKeyPressed)

// Install handler.
InstallEventHandler(GetApplicationEventTarget(), {(nextHanlder, theEvent, userData) -> OSStatus in
    var hkCom = EventHotKeyID()
    GetEventParameter(theEvent, EventParamName(kEventParamDirectObject), EventParamType(typeEventHotKeyID), nil, sizeof(EventHotKeyID), nil, &hkCom)

    // Check that hkCom in indeed your hotkey ID and handle it.
}, 1, &eventType, nil, nil)

// Register hotkey.
let status = RegisterEventHotKey(UInt32(keyCode), UInt32(modifierKeys), gMyHotKeyID, GetApplicationEventTarget(), 0, &hotKeyRef)

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