16 May 2013, 10:05
Morning, I'm the developer of an app that relies on a context menu (the user is able to disable dock icon and menu bar and then the context menu is the only way to reach prefs and options).
A user who is also using FP has had problems with the context menu not working in my app. He did discover that if he "excluded Binit from Finderpop" and restarted then my app worked fine. But only briefly (about 3 minutes apparently) before the context menu wouldn't show again. He now says that after switching FP off (not sure exactly what that means) the context menu still doesn't show.
Any suggestions how he can ensure that the context menu in my app will always appear?
16 May 2013, 15:18
Have had a thought
if FP is in his login items then this would explain why the context menu on my app works briefly after he restarts but only for a short while.I'd still be interested in how the user can 'exclude' Bin-it or how I might alter my app to be compatible with FP.
16 May 2013, 20:24
Hey Shiela, that sounds weird. What version of MacOS and FinderPop is your user running?
For 10.6 and later, FinderPop only patches contextual menu stuff in the Finder, and for all other apps, only allows clicking-in-unused-menubar.
So I shouldn't be interfering with contextual menus in other apps at all.
Is your app a real MacOS app or is it an extension piggybacking onto the Finder or something?
23 May 2013, 16:03
(solved this one offline)