The system-added "Start Dictation" menu item is causing some headaches in my
Carbon app, does anyone know how to prevent it from being added?
My app loads the menu bar out of a Carbon nib (using CreateMenuBarFromNib()),
but the traditional Menu Manager APIs (CountMenuItems(), etc.) are completely
unaware that the “Start Dictation” item exists.
The problem comes when the cursor hovers over “Start Dictation” or the
separator above it. A kEventMenuTargetItem event is sent, but the event’s
MenuItemIndex is greater than the menu’s number of items! (from
CountMenuItems())
In addition, calling GetMenuItemAttributes() with that MenuItemIndex returns
paramErr (-50).
I would really prefer to just remove the “Start Dictation” menu item.
The only advice I’ve seen is to set NSDisabledDictationMenuItem to TRUE, but it
seems to have no effect.
I’m doing this at the top of main() with a call to
CFPreferencesSetAppValue(CFSTR("NSDisabledDictationMenuItem"), kCFBooleanTrue,
kCFPreferencesCurrentApplication)), it’s successfully changing the plist but
the item is still there.
Another thing that I”m puzzled about is that the “Emoji & Symbols” menu item
does not show up in my Edit menu, just “Start Dictation”. I’m ok with this, but
just haven’t seen any information about why one or the other isn’t added.
Thank you,
Brendan Shanks
Senior Software Engineer
brend...@dessci.com
Design Science, Inc. -- www.dessci.com
140 Pine Avenue, 4th Floor
Long Beach, California 90802 USA
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