Re: Menu Items and the kAXPickAction Action
Re: Menu Items and the kAXPickAction Action
- Subject: Re: Menu Items and the kAXPickAction Action
- From: Eric Schlegel <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 08:46:54 -0700
On Thursday, August 29, 2002, at 10:48 PM, Michael Kamprath wrote:
When ever I use the Accessibility API to send a menu item that
kAXPickAction
action message, if the menu item belongs to an Application that is not
the
current front application, the action does not occur until that
application
is brought to the front.
Is this the intended behavior of the Accessibility API? Is there any
way to
make the kAXPickAction action occur while the application remains in
its
current non-front layer?
Interesting point. We hadn't considered that aspect of the action.
It's not "intended behavior", but it doesn't surprise me either. In
order to implement the pick action, we have to fool the app into
thinking a mouse-down landed on the menubar. Background apps have
hidden menubars, so the app probably doesn't get an inMenuBar response
from FindWindow when it checks the mouse position.
Please file a feature request and I'll see if I can make this work
somehow.
-eric
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