Re: Contextual menus
Re: Contextual menus
- Subject: Re: Contextual menus
- From: Iurista GmbH <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2011 20:13:15 +0100
Am 05.12.2011 um 20.03 schrieb Michelle Steiner:
> On Dec 5, 2011, at 11:31 AM, Iurista GmbH wrote:
>
>> My mail was mybe a little bit too short. What is fact, is that Snow Leopard does not support contextual menu plug-ins in 64 bit applications. Read the site by Abracode.com:
>>
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>> Apple removed native support for contextual menu plug-ins in Mac OS 10.6 in 64 bit mode and replaced it with services items. Even if the contextual menu plug-in is 64 bit, the applications will not load it. Almost all, if not all Apple applications shipping with Snow Leopard run 64 bit by default,including Finder, so your contextual menu plugins will not work.....
>> Unquote
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> I still don't follow. I still have contextual menus in 64-bit applications. It may be that they're implemented differently at the development level, but to the user, they appear the same.
Yes, you HAVE contextual menus in 64-bit applications (I had written that already in my last post, didn't I?)
But you only have the ones, Apple has permitted and build into their apps.
What you DO NOT have any more, is the ability to extend the functionality of the contextual menus by simply dropping PLUGINS into ~Library/Contextual Menu Items or /Library/Contextual Menu Items, regardless if those PLUGINS are written 32 or 64 bits... Apple's apps (like eg. FINDER) and any other 64 bit app will not read any more those PLUGINS.
As an example: Go to <http://www.brockerhoff.net> and download the contextual menu called "Nudge" (it does no harm, so you may easily try it). Look for the folder "Contextual Menu Items" in your home library folder (create the folder, if it does not exist). Drop the contextual menu "Nudge" there in. Log out and in again. Under system versions prior to Snow Leopard, while right-clicking a Finders item, you would now see a menu item called "nudge xxx...". This means, the downloaded contextual menu named "Nudge" extended the functionality of the contextual menu system by adding a new menu item to your contextual menu structure. That's was an easy and uncomplicated way for users to enhance the right-clicking mouse button.
THIS enhancement possibility is gone. Apple's software does NOT anymore read (and execute) the code from the plugins in the contextual menu item folder, and therefore, you CANNOT any more extend the functionality of the contextual menus by simply dropping plugins in a folder...
If you still dont like to believe it, google the subject... I'm pretty sure, there's a lot of hints you will find about that and therefore you may find somebody who can explain you the subject much better than I can do....
Rudolf
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