I would like to know, that a user opened some menu (Dock’s menu for example). How can I check that?
I’ll be thankfull for any help.
d.
Why do you need to know?
I want to display some information inside the menu (something like the info about currently played song in iTunes), and I don’t want to update this information too often – only when the user open the menu.
(Sorry for my english ;-)
d.
The easy way to do this is to implement validateMenuItem: in the target of the menu item that you want to update. It’s invoked just before the menu is displayed. It’s intended to let you enable/disable the menu, but it works smashingly for changing states, titles, etc. as well. I’m a bit doubtful about this working for the Dock menu, though, but it’s worth a try.
If it is just the dock menu, you can supply the dock menu dynamically. Have a look at the NSApplication delegate method “applicationDockMenu:”.
BTW, your english is fine.
Many thanks for your help, guys! I’ll let you now, if it works.
OK, both ways are fine for me and I don’t know yet which method I’ll use.
Thank for help :-)
d.
Have a try with “menuNeedsUpdate:” delegate method from NSMenu class.