For my RCP app, I am not using any menu. When built for Mac OS, there appears a default menu.
About, Preferences and Quit etc.
How to map default commands to these menu items?
I just want to keep menu for Mac not for other OSs.
In Application.e4xmi,I have created commands for with ids org.eclipse.ui.~ so on.
Should I just need to create HandledMenuItem in Menu contributions? and map the commands with it? Or do I need to add menus for Trimmed Window?
You just need to define commands and handlers. The commands must use standard ids known by Eclipse. These are:
org.eclipse.ui.file.exit for 'Quit'
org.eclipse.ui.help.aboutAction for 'About'
org.eclipse.ui.window.preferences for 'Preferences'
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How can I unbind Command-Control-Space from Mac OS X 10.9?
This shortcut shows Special Characters table and conflicts with my Emacs key binding, and I couldn't disable it from System Preference->Keyboard->Shortcuts.
Thanks.
At least on macOS Sierra to macOS Big Sur ⌃Space is the default binding for Select the previous input source which is on by default (even if only one input source is activated).
You can free it by:
Open System Preferences
Go to Keyboard > Shortcuts > Input Sources
Untick "Select the previous input source"
Afterwards, you should be able to bind it as expected.
You can create custom keyboard shortcuts for most app's menubar choices in System Preferences. If a desired key combination is losing precedence to a default shortcut that you don't use and can't easily disable, simply override it with a new, unobtrusive shortcut.
Open System Prefs / Keyboard / Shortcuts. Select App Shortcuts from the left pane. Toggle the All Applications category's triangle in the main window to point downward (if it's not open already).
If there's an item named Emoji & Symbols* shown there, then click its shortcut combination and enter a new shortcut (such as option-shift-command-t, in this case).
If there's not an item named Emoji & Symbols under All Applications, click the + button at the bottom, type or copy-paste Emoji & Symbols, and then enter a new keyboard shortcut (option-shift-command-t, or anything really). This will free the control-command-space combination for you to use as a specialized shortcut elsewhere.
To remove your custom shortcut, just click to highlight it in the main window of this preference pane, and click the – button at the bottom. The custom shortcut will disappear and the default action will resume.
*Note: On versions older than Mac OS 10.10.3, the menu item is called Special Characters… instead of Emoji & Symbols.
I don't know of any way to disable this, but an alternative option might be to create a shortcut for the app you want to use that in. I created a Command-Control-Space shortcut for Chrome and now Command-Control-Space doesn't bring up the special character palette anymore in Chrome.
failing that you may be better off asking in Apple Stackexchange
I have a Multimedia App that is for Mac OS X using Xcode.
The languages used are Objective-C, C++ and C.
I want to somehow get my app in the "Open With" contextual menu without having the user do anything. I don't want to "take over" the default association unless the user sets it in the Preferences or takes additional steps.
Any suggestions?
If you add an entry for the document type you'd like to support to your application's Info.plist it should show up in that menu. The easiest way to do this is to select your target and add the type in the Info tab.
How do I add custom menu items to the context menu for files in Finder?
Unfortunately, most of the information out on the Internet and on Stack Overflow doesn't work in 10.6 or are too limited. Automator, for example, doesn't allow you to create items dynamically or create submenus.
I know it's still possible to do this sort of thing because Dropbox and FolderGlance both do similar things. Does anyone know how they implemented this?
Thanks.
For what it's worth, Dropbox now uses mach_star for code injection. Obviously this is a fragile solution. If you look through their version history, many of their updates are to fix finder integration.
In macOS 10.10+, Finder Sync Extensions can be used to add items to the Finder context menu. This is how modern versions of Dropbox and similar apps customize the right-click menu.
For those just seeking to use the functionality, not develop their own app extension, I've released a Mac app that allows for arbitrary customization of a Finder Sync Extension:
Service Station - Mac App Store
I downloaded FolderGlance and it appears to use an osax (Scripting Addition) bundle to inject code into the Finder process. This is definitely fragile and unsupported.
As far as I am aware the only legit way to add items to the Finder contextual menu is to create a Service, but that doesn't solve your problem.
Up to to the OS X 10.9.x only injecting code to Finder process via mach_inject was a solution (and even Dropbox did that).
However since 10.10 there are Finder plugins, which can customize context menus, add buttons to Toolbar and put overlays over file icons.
They used CFPlugIn to add their menu items.
More on it here:
http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/CoreFoundation/Reference/CFPlugInRef/Reference/reference.html
I'm developing an Eclipse RCP based application, which runs fine under OS-X and Windows.
Under OS-X I've run into the following Problem:
In the Menubar the first Menu "ApplicationName" has the default entries "About ApplicationName" and "Preferences".
I want to either grey these two out, remove them completely, or if this is not possible add a handle to get notified if they are clicked.
Thanks for help
See this SWT snippet (assuming you're using Cocoa). For Carbon, use this one.
In the new Cocoa API, it looks like you can do anything you like to the system menu items. I've only used the Carbon API, which is more of an unsupported hack.
I'm working to an application for OSX and I would to add a new menu item on the menu shown when you click on a dock icon.
The menu isn't for my application but it must appear for all running apps.
I've found only this doc http://cocoadevcentral.com/articles/000036.php but it adds to its own app.
My app will run on OSX 10.6 or superior
You can't do that with the public API. You need to inject code into the Dock. In 10.6, the standard way to inject the code is to use the OSAX loading trick, described in this blog post for that. Then you need to do Objective-C runtime hackery to replace the method, using method_exchangeImplementations.
Anyway it's a tricky process. But if you have the will, you can. SIMBL might (or might not) help you.