Re: Dynamic Services Menu
Re: Dynamic Services Menu
- Subject: Re: Dynamic Services Menu
- From: Sheehan Olver <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 00:02:18 -0600
I probably won't do this since it's asking for trouble, but I'm curious
if it's possible to edit your own Info.plist during runtime? Perhaps
there is even someway to get the system to reread the Info.plist. I
guess even if this would work, you can't guarantee the user has write
access, but it would still be neat if it worked... On the other hand,
it's probably easier to just file a bug report.
On Wednesday, December 11, 2002, at 11:48 PM, Dan Wood wrote:
You can't; I've verified this with folks at Apple. Please file a bug
with Apple at bugreport.apple.com -- maybe if enough of us see the
need for it and tell Apple, it might happen one day. (I, for one,
would love to have Watson plug-ins advertise services, but it would
need to be constructed at run-time, since we don't know what plug-ins
are loaded until then.)
Regards,
Dan Wood
On Wednesday, December 11, 2002, at 07:36 PM, Sheehan Olver wrote:
I was wondering if its possible to change the services menu of an app
on the fly? I've been throwing around in my mind an app that allows
you to 'pipe' text from a gui app to a unix app, such as selecting
text and using 'sort' to sort it. Now I could just use info.plist,
but I would really like a plugin architecture so that adding new unix
commands is modularized. Also, it would be nice to only display the
items that are visible. I would think there would be some way to
access the NSMenu related to the Service Menu, kinda like a Dock
Menu, but I can't seem to find reference to doing something like >> that.
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