Are you inferring it's possible to assign a command ID to a menu
in a Cocoa app and then grab it from a Carbon event handler I have
running (assuming I disconnected it from any Cocoa methods)?
You mean "are you implying". :)
Oops. Intransitive verb. Synonym for "imply" (Concise Oxford, 2nd
meaning).
Perhaps better written: "Can I infer that a command ID assigned to a
Cocoa menu would be available to a Carbon event handler?".
Yes, that would be possible, assuming that you could assign a
command ID to a menu using Cocoa. As far as I know, there's no
Cocoa API to do that.
No; primarily just the menu classes (NSMenu and NSMenuItem), which
use the Carbon Menu Manager. The Cocoa event system also calls
into the Carbon Event Manager to fetch events from the event
queue. No other parts of AppKit are implemented on top of
HIToolbox, or ever have been.
Perhaps I misunderstood the original statement in my overwhelming
desire to _make_ it true. There is no -(MenuRef)getMenuRef for NSMenu
similar to getting a WindowRef from NSWindow. Pity. It could go a
long way towards interoperability.
However, it's good news anyway. Just trying to see if I could do it
lead me to a solution that comes in real handy for a product update
due later today.
I started to apply the technique from the now withdrawn QA1061 and it
appears that it's grabbing the same events. Just like in the example
I'd want to start and stop the event loop but instead of Carbon RAEL,
maybe the methods 'run', and 'stop' from NSApplication. Do you think
that would be viable? Or am I barking up the wrong tree? I'm willing
to do a lot so I can take advantage of the much more elegant Carbon
implementation.
Thanks,
Philip Aker
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