Re: finding menu titles from another running app...
Re: finding menu titles from another running app...
- Subject: Re: finding menu titles from another running app...
- From: Philip George <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 05 May 2003 20:55:11 -0500
Aha. Ok.... This is what I'm talking about, but let me add one more
constraint:
I need a solution that will work in 10.0 and up.
I've been working on this app for almost three years now, and although I'm
constantly adding features and optimizing others, I've managed to avoid any
newer API's, so it runs on **ALL** versions of OS X, all the way down to
10.0. I'd like to keep it that way. It's a nice selling point.
So, can anyone think of a way to grab another **running** app's menu titles
("File", "Edit", "Window", "Help", etc...) whether that app is Carbon or
Cocoa, that doesn't read NIB files, and that will work in ALL versions of OS
X?
Thanks.
- Philip
On 5/5/03 12:05 PM, "Eric Schlegel" <email@hidden> wrote:
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That won't work for the many Carbon apps that don't use nib files.
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The best way to do this is using the Accessibility API that was
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introduced in 10.2.
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-eric
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On Monday, May 5, 2003, at 09:21 AM, Andreas Schempp wrote:
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> you can try to get the path to the application you want, and then load
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> it's main nib file for you...
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> not a nice way, and I don't know if this works for carbon apps, but I
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> think it should
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> Am Montag, 05.05.03 um 05:37 Uhr schrieb Philip George:
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>> If an app has the following menus (for example)...
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>> File Edit View Window Help
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>> ...how can my app find out that information. Nothing else; just the
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>> titles.
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>> I'll need to know how to do it for Cocoa and Carbon apps, bundled and
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>> forked.
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>> Thanks.
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>> - Philip
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