Re: Handle Dock menu open/close events

FROM : Peter Ammon
DATE : Wed Jan 16 20:40:21 2008

The Dock menu is shown in the Dock process, not in your 
appplication's process. Your application continues to run in the 
default run loop mode, and may even receive events, while the Dock 
menu is shown.  There's no way at this point to be notified when the 
Dock menu is closed.

If you give some more details, we might be able to suggest alternatives.

-Peter

On Jan 16, 2008, at 7:59 AM, John Stiles wrote:

> I am not certain if this will actually work, but you could try 
> doing performSelector:...inModes: in the preprocess step, and 
> passing the NSDefaultRunLoopMode as the mode. Theoretically, while 
> the menu is open, you'll be stuck in event tracking mode, and the 
> selector will not be called. Once the menu closes, you'll go back 
> to the default mode and wham! Your selector will get called.
>
> I don't know if it will work because this technique /didn't/ work 
> for me with drag-and-drop in an outline view, due to what seems to 
> be a bug in Apple's outline view code :(
>
>
> Apparao Mulpuri wrote:

>> Thanks Nick,
>>
>> NSMenu  has provides methods for doing pre process operations 
>> before its
>> displaying. I need to capture events after user closes the dock 
>> menu with
>> out doing/'clicking on any menu items in the Dockl menu.
>>
>> - Apparao.
>>
>> On 1/16/08, Nick Zitzmann <<email_removed>> wrote:
>>

>>> On Jan 15, 2008, at 10:29 PM, Apparao Mulpuri wrote:
>>>
>>>

>>>> I have a application, in which i need to do some pre and post
>>>> processing
>>>> operations when the user open and close the dock menu. Is it
>>>> possible using
>>>> Cocoa?. f yes, please explain how?
>>>>

>>> The NSMenu delegate methods started working on Dock menus in Tiger &
>>> later.
>>>
>>> Nick Zitzmann
>>> <http://www.chronosnet.com/>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>

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