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Re: Telling the Help menu Spotlight search to ignore certain items
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Re: Telling the Help menu Spotlight search to ignore certain items


  • Subject: Re: Telling the Help menu Spotlight search to ignore certain items
  • From: Keith Blount <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 12:06:26 -0800 (PST)

Okay, thanks again anyway. I've filed an enhancement request, and for now I'll just try to optimise the menu building as best as I can, being sure only to update them when they have actually changed.
Thanks again and all the best,
Keith


--- On Thu, 1/22/09, Eric Schlegel <email@hidden> wrote:

> From: Eric Schlegel <email@hidden>
> Subject: Re: Telling the Help menu Spotlight search to ignore certain items
> To: email@hidden
> Cc: email@hidden
> Date: Thursday, January 22, 2009, 6:54 PM
> On Jan 22, 2009, at 6:23 AM, Keith Blount wrote:
>
> > Many thanks for your reply. I'll file an
> enhancement request, but still looking for a solution to the
> problem, is there any way to be notified of when the Help
> menu is about to start doing this indexing? If there were, I
> could tell my dynamic menus not to rebuild themselves in
> that situation. I thought looking for -menuWillOpen: for the
> Help menu would work for this, but, somewhat uselessly, that
> delegate method only gets called *after* the Help menu has
> finished its indexing, immediately before it opens.
>
> There are some Carbon event-based approaches to be
> notified, but I'm not sure they'll be that suitable
> for you in Leopard, due to other weaknesses in that
> approach. I don't think there's any Cocoa-based way
> to be notified.
>
> -eric



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