Thanks everyone. In the end, since this is a shoebox app like iPhoto where the
user doesn't access their data via File->Open and the file name doesn't
necessarily make sense to the user I suppressed the Open Recently menu (the
user has a History menu like Safari for that purpose). For the dock menu I
made my own which allowed me to give the user menu item titles that would mean
something to them. I did it two parts. First I did this to suppress the
default functionality:
- (NSUInteger)maximumRecentDocumentCount {
return 0;
}
and then I provide my own using - (NSMenu *)applicationDockMenu:(NSApplication
*)sender. I'm not doing a lot of calculations here so it comes up quickly for
the user.
On Jan 28, 2012, at 5:58 PM, James Merkel wrote:
> On 28 Jan 2012 08:46:48 -0800 Quincey Morris wrote:
>
>> On Jan 28, 2012, at 08:19 , Brad Stone wrote:
>>
>>> I have a shoebox app like iPhoto where the actual filename is irrelevant to
>>> the user. I control the file name.
>>>
>>> What I'd like to do is just capture the menu items before they're displayed
>>> and change the menu titles into something relevant to the user. In the
>>> scheme of things it's a minor way to access the info in my app so if I
>>> could eliminate them that would be OK too. Changing the filename is not an
>>> option at this point.
>>
>> It seems to me you can subclass NSDocumentController, then override
>> 'noteNewRecentDocument:' to do nothing. Presumably this will keep your
>> filename off the "Open Recent" submenu, the "Recent Items" item on the Apple
>> menu, and the dock menu. Then you should be able to delete the "Open Recent"
>> item itself, and be left with no traces of recent items from your app.
>>
>> If you wanted to go the extra mile, you could create your own recent-items
>> implementation, driven from your 'noteNewRecentDocument:' override, and
>> using the 'applicationDockMenu:' application delegate method, with whatever
>> document identifiers you want.
>
>
> My app is not document based so I call noteNewRecentDocumentURL: directly to
> add the filename to the Open Recent submenu list.
> If I comment that line of code out then the document is not added to the list
> as expected. Also, the Dock menu "Show Recents" shows nothing and the
> filename is not added to the Dock menu list.
>
> So yes, noteNewRecentDocument; (which calls noteNewRecentDocumentURL: ) is
> the key to the whole thing.
>
> Jim Merkel
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