Hello, I wonder if anyone have got more experience developing Finder Sync extensions for Yosemite. I believe I figured out some things I’d like to achieve aren’t possible and I’d like to confirm them. It’s related to FIFinderSync protocol method - [FIFinderSync menuForMenuKind:]. According to documentation, in this method I’m supposed to create a menu containing menu items, which are related to selected and/or target items in one of monitored directories. That menu (that is, its items) will be added to Finder standard contextual menu (provided that FIMenuKind parameter is FIMenuKindContextualMenuForItems).
This all works fine, but I’ve noticed that not exactly menu items I created in above mentioned method are added to contextual menu, but their “shallow" copies. I say “shallow”, because, as far as I can see, only three properties of original menu items are used: title, image and action. All other properties I set to menu items in the protocol method aren’t used, including target, indentation, tag, represented object, etc. Therefore, “shallow" menu items that appear in Finder contextual menu have their targets set to nil, which means all menu item actions have to be implemented by the FIFinderSync subclass. This, as well as impossibility to pass menu items tags and represented objects, disturbs my code organisation a bit, but I can work around it. But one particular things really bothers me; if I create a menu item which has its own submenu, the “shallow” menu item added to the contextual menu does not include that submenu, effectively preventing one from creating hierarchical menus provided by Finder Sync extension. My extension is supposed to provide quite some number of actions (depending on selection), many of them are logically grouped and not being able to organise them in hierarchical menu really clutters the whole Finder contextual menu with too many items. Another interesting thing is that if in the action method of a certain “shallow” menu item I try to get a reference to its containing menu (practically trying to get reference to Finder contextual menu), that property returns nil, like the item doesn’t belong in to any menu at all. If anyone realises I’m doing anything wrong, or knows how to overcome these limitations, I’d be really thankful for eventual insights. -- Dragan _______________________________________________ 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: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
