Re: Open Recent menus
Re: Open Recent menus
- Subject: Re: Open Recent menus
- From: Hamish Allan <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 17:03:18 +0100
On Tue, 21 Jun 2005 22:06:13 -0400, Mark Spano
<email@hidden> wrote:
I have a Cocoa document-based application that opens data files that
fall into two categories: call them Flow and Section.
Unfortunately, there is no indication in
the file extension or anywhere else as to which type any given file
is (and no hope of getting the data supplier to tag the files).
Instead I modified the name of the Open Recent menu item to Open
Recent (Flow) and made
a second item called Open Recent (Section). Unfortunately, there I
stalled. I
could find no way to select which one stored a recently opened file
name. Worse, Cocoa seems to randomly select which one it will use
to store recent names. Sometime one, sometimes the other,
sometimes both.
The Open Recent menu is populated on the fly (in Tiger, every time
you open it; in Panther, when you first open it; Jaguar and before, I
don't know), so if there's nothing about your file which can be used
to tell the two types apart, I don't see how you could work this.
Any other comments / suggestions?
Is it out of the question to ask your users to add a couple of extra
characters to the file extensions (e.g., if the original extension
is .blah, the new extensions would be .blahf and .blahs)? Seems like
this wouldn't be much more work for them than having to choose from a
drop-down in the open dialog.
Best wishes,
Hamish
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