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Re: Adding to an applications menu.



it's one of few valuable things i learned in the academy where i studied:
the first thing to do with a new client, is to translate their wishes into that what they really want. usually something completely different than their initial demands.


if you manage to have them realise they actually don't want this non- solution (for a start, Shawn touched that subject, they will possibly have to invest again and again on each itteration of the OS..)

but IF, i imagine you could create a solution in which you monitor if the user opens this 'Go' menu, and if they do you just display some custom contextual (interactive) help-palette next-to(ontopoff/etc..) the menu.
probably the accessibility framework has some usefull features.


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On Sep 3, 2007, at 19:05 , development2 wrote:

Well probably the best thing you can do then, is to create an NSStatusBar menu, in the upper right of the menu bar. This would give the user access to it at anytime, not just in the finder. You could easily do what you want from that then. But what they want you to do is just not feasible, and if you could do it, it would break with OS updates most likely.


On Sep 3, 2007, at 9:07 AM, Ben Spink wrote:

Under the Finder's Go, iDisk menu, they want a link to launch an email with instructions for connecting to the idisk. This would be handled by Applescript, and I have no issue doing that provided I can get the app to launch.

The second one is they want the idisk "Connect to:" url copied to the clipboard. This too I was going to do with applescript, provided I can get it to launch.

That's it. Launch two different applications, from two separate menu items.

Thanks,
Ben


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