Re: dockMenu bug?

FROM : slasktrattenator
DATE : Sat May 03 18:22:44 2008

Thanks Jens. Sounds to me we don't need the quotation marks round "bug".

On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 5:46 PM, Jens Alfke <<email_removed>> wrote:
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>  On 3 May '08, at 6:44 AM, <email_removed> wrote:
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> > I'm having this problem where I cannot hide menu items in my dock
> > menu. [menuItem setHidden:YES] does nothing, nor does checking the
> > "Hidden" checkbox in IB. The dock menu itself is created in IB and
> > connected to NSApp's dockMenu outlet. Is this a bug or am I missing
> > something?
> >
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>  "Bug", I guess; really, the dock menu doesn't support all the functionality
> of a real NSMenu, since it's implemented differently — the NSMenu object is
> just a proxy, and the actual menu is managed by the Dock process. (I believe
> the app sends IPC messages to the Dock process telling it what menu items to
> show, and the Dock sends back IPC messages when the user chooses an item.)
>
>  —Jens