Re: [MACTCL] 3 questions about Dock

[Daniel A. S. <st...@ic...>]

David,

On 20/01/2006, at 1:47, David Zolli wrote:

> I have 3 questions about OS X Dock:
>
> 1) Is it possible to add or remove entries in Dock's contextual  
> menu with Tk?

you should be able to setup a static custom dock menu by editing  
Info.plist and adding a .nib file as described here:
	http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Carbon/Conceptual/ 
customizing_docktile/tasks/chapter_3_section_2.html
to handle item selection in that menu it'll be easiest to setup a  
HICommand carbon event handler, e.g. via Ffidl as in my HotKey sample

if you need a dynamic menu created at runtime you'll need to use the  
dock tile menu API, which will be more difficult from Tcl:
	http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Carbon/Conceptual/ 
customizing_docktile/tasks/chapter_3_section_3.html
	http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Carbon/Conceptual/ 
customizing_docktile/tasks/chapter_3_section_4.html

> 2) Is it possible to prevent/remove windows list at the top of this  
> contextual menu?

AFAICT with a static custom dock menu you automatically don't get the  
windows list anymore, e.g. as in Xcode's dock menu, but I'm not  
certain about that.

> 3) If (2) is not possible, what could I use to know the window the  
> user clicks? (I tried
>    to bind <Activate> but it doesn't work if the same windows was  
> clicked two consecutive
>    times).

I'm not sure I understand this question, you want to be notified of  
all clicks in a window whether the window is active or not ?

Cheers,

Daniel

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