I need to add a new item under the "Go" menu in the OS X Finder.
My client has stipulated this, otherwise I would not do so. I have
tried to talk them out of it, but so far no luck.
I have edited the objects.xib file contained in /System/Library/
CoreService/Finder.App/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/Menus.nib/.
I added my new entries in there, picked an ID that did not appear
to be used (716), assigned a key, but what do I do with the
"command" entry? If I leave it as is, it launches the command I
copied instead of doing something I want. I assume there is some
listener that is catching all events generated by the menu. Can I
hook into that in some way?
Is it possible to register a command to launch a specific
application on the machine? Or launch a specific path?
Unless you have access to the Finder source code - which I'm pretty
sure you don't - you can't add commands. If the Finder is working
anything like the programs which I've been familiar with, those IDs
are being handled in a big switch() statement (or something similar)
deep within its code.
So no: there's no way you can edit the Finder's interface. And you
definitely shouldn't - Apple reserves the right to change the way it
works internally, and in fact I'm pretty certain[1] that under
Leopard, the Finder will work entirely differently. (Everything I've
heard has suggested that it's been heavily rearchitected, and there's
a significant chance it's no longer even using Carbon anymore.)
[1] Based on what I've seen on Apple's web site, nothing more.
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