Thanks for that Michael - I'd missed that.
I think what I'll do is what you suggest: exclude the subwindows then
add them myself in the correct order and see if that works. I have to modify
their titles anyway.
On 20/08/2010, at 4:23 AM, Michael Dautermann wrote:
>
> On Aug 18, 2010, at 5:56 PM, Peter Zegelin wrote:
>
>> My app allows the user to create a number of sub windows for each document.
>
>
>>
>> I would prefer the layout to be more like Xcode where the sub windows of a
>> project are added below the main document entry and indented:
>>
>> <Window Menu>
>> MyDoc
>> SubWindow 1
>> SubWindow 2
>> MyDoc2
>> SubWindow 1
>> SubWindow 2
>>
>> Is it OK to extensively modify this menu? I am mainly concerned that since
>> it is automatically populated it is going to get quite complicated to do it
>> properly.
>> Any hints/ code etc. gratefully accepted.
>
> Hello Peter,
>
> I found this mention of the Window menu in the reference documentation:
>
> <http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/WinPanel/Tasks/UsingWindowsMenu.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/20000231-SW1>
>
> It sounds like you can manually mess with the Windows menu by setting
> setExcludedFromWindowsMenu:YES on each window you control and then manually
> adding/deleting items for the windows via [[NSApplication sharedApplication]
> addWindowsItem:title:filename: ] or [[NSApplication sharedApplication ]
> removeWindowsItem:].
>
> hth....
>
>
>
kind regards,
Peter Zegelin
http://www.fracturedsoftware.com
Rondo - MIDI for your mac
MacSimAVR - AVR microcontroller simulator for OS X
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