Re: Is there an API call to open an applications menu?
Re: Is there an API call to open an applications menu?
- Subject: Re: Is there an API call to open an applications menu?
- From: Eric Schlegel <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2011 13:08:23 -0800
On Mar 9, 2011, at 12:45 PM, Brian Krisler wrote:
> For example, in Mail, If I search help for 'Message', the first item is
> 'New Message'. If I arrow down and select it, the menu that contains
> New Message is opened and an indicator is pointing to the menu item.
>
> I would like to do similar. Is the API that help uses private or public?
Unfortunately the functions used by the help system are all private. There's no public way to do exactly the same thing. The best you could do would be to post fake mouse events to trigger the application UI to respond as if the user had clicked and moved the mouse.
-eric
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