Re: SystemStatusBar question
Re: SystemStatusBar question
- Subject: Re: SystemStatusBar question
- From: daniel <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 20:37:12 -0800
On Mar 8, 2005, at 11:33 AM, Bill Cheeseman wrote:
on 2005-03-08 12:10 PM, Finlay Dobbie at email@hidden wrote:
On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 08:09:12 -0800, Vince Ackerman <email@hidden>
wrote:
Is there anyway to get the StatusBarItem for the iChat Status Menu?
If
you could, then you could check to see if the MenuItems change and
get
the new item (ie available buddies ) that way....
No, there isn't, and that sounds like a horrendous ugly hack of a way
anyway.
So I beg to differ when you say that his approach is a "horrendous ugly
hack". I wrote PreFab UI Actions to allow techniques like this to
work, and
they do work in most applications.
It's a big ugly hack for many reasons independent of using UI access to
get at the values:
1. Using another app's view on a model as your model is icky.
2. Some iChat users (like myself) have turned off this particular view,
so *poof* there goes your solution.
And for one reason dependent on the notion of using UI access:
1. Depending on or requiring your users to turn on a feature (access
for assistive devices) that is off by default, when there is another
more reliable feature (AppleScript) that is on by default, just seems
like a poor decision that is sure to cause confusion and distress.
I think UI access is cool, but in this case even if it was possible to
do what's being suggested, it would be a "horrendous ugly hack of a
way" of doing it. Using AppleScript is merely an "uglyish hack of a
way" of doing it.
Daniel
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