Re: "hooking" into another app

FROM : Alastair Houghton
DATE : Mon Apr 14 19:20:19 2008

On 14 Apr 2008, at 18:01, Chilton Webb wrote:

> On the topic of Input Managers, it would be fine with me if Apple 
> did away with this blatant security hole altogether.
> I can think of zero real reasons to have it around still, which 
> couldn't be addressed via more secure means, or by the individual 
> application developers.


They are in the process of doing just that, I think you'll find.  It's 
just that, rather than removing them instantly, they've been 
deprecated and replaced with an alternative and more secure mechanism 
(Input Servers, if I remember rightly).  In some future version of Mac 
OS X, I think you can expect to see them go away.

This was noted in the 10.5 AppKit release notes, which said:

"The automatic loading of bundles located in InputManagers folders is 
now officially unsupported. The conditions for valid input manager 
bundle is further tightened. This functionality is likely to be 
disabled in a future release."

Kind regards,

Alastair.

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