Observe “Update Menu”

colinmford

Hi there,

Is there some way I can set up an observer to fire when the Scripts menu is refreshed? (Caused by either clicking Scripts > Update Menu, or when it is refreshed on its own via some other RF function?)

Thanks!

colinmford

@frederik Thanks!!

frederik

I see

will add such a notification: scriptsMenuChanged

colinmford

Hey @frederik,

It's admittedly a little hacky, but I like to keep a version number on our internal library so I can tell at a glance what version RF has loaded:

I do this with a script similar to this:

from AppKit import NSApp, NSMenu, NSMenuItem
from mojo.events import addObserver, removeObserver

from hco import __version__

class ShowVersionInfo:
    def __init__(self):
        addObserver(self, "waitForActive", "applicationDidFinishLaunching")

    def waitForActive(self, sender):
        # This is a hack to get it to wait until the application is _really_ ready
        addObserver(self, "addInfo", "applicationDidBecomeActive")

    def addInfo(self, sender):
        removeObserver(self, "applicationDidFinishLaunching")
        removeObserver(self, "applicationDidBecomeActive")

        menubar = NSApp().mainMenu()

        scripts = menubar.itemWithTitle_("Scripts").submenu()
        hco = scripts.itemWithTitle_("H&Co").submenu()

        info = NSMenuItem.alloc().initWithTitle_action_keyEquivalent_("Internal Design Tools v"+__version__, '', '')
        hco.insertItem_atIndex_(NSMenuItem.separatorItem(), 0)
        hco.insertItem_atIndex_(info, 0)

ShowVersionInfo()

When the script menu is updated through "Update Menu" or some other internal function, the version string and divider bar are removed — it's annoying that it's not there anymore, but not a big issue.

If there is some observer that fires after a menu refresh was run, I could re-add that version info.

frederik

why would you need such an observer?

UNSOLVED Observe “Update Menu”