On May 17, 2010, at 6:08 PM, Tobias Jordan wrote: > Thanks for your nice ideas guys, both solutions, subclassing NSApplication > (overwriting -sendEvent:) and calling > -nextEventMatchingMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue: in a loop work. Now the only > thing that's missing is disabling the application's menu since it's still > clickable during animation. Is there a way to disable a whole MainMenu or > maybe all items in it?
Can't you just not not ask for mouseDown events in your event mask while running your event loop? My guess would be that that would keep any menus from opening. Anyway, this sounds like a very weird use case. Why do you want to disable everything during an animation? Usually animations should be short enough that this shouldn't be a problem, and if the user wants to do something, why keep them from multi-tasking? Animations are intended as indicators, and if a user doesn't want to watch an indicator, that should be their choice to make. Anyway, to try and disable the menu bar, I guess you could try to use the responder chain. After all, that's how they usually get enabled. Make your object an NSResponder and insert it in the chain so it's the only one that gets asked, somehow? Or have it claim to implement any action (Make respondsToSelector: always return YES?) and then return NO from each validateMenuItem: call? Never done that, so don't know if that's really needed. There may be a better way, see the docs for NSResponder and NSApplication methods and see if any of them makes sense. I think there was a noResponderForAction: method (or something like that), maybe that is for that purpose? Also, if you put up a modal NSPanel using NSApplication's runModal... methods, that'll disable the menus. Maybe that could be (ab)used. -- Uli Kusterer "The Witnesses of TeachText are everywhere..." _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
