For those of you having trouble with Flash 10.1, I’ve fixed PB to handle it. This moves from the hackish “dig around in the NetscapePlugin objects and call undocumented methods” approach to a standard CGEvent based keyboard injection. You can’t use NSApp’s sendEvent: to talk to Flash (probably because Flash is not in Cocoa). But the following code is a good general purpose “send me a virtual keystroke.”
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Just a reminder, because the template doesn’t seem to set this up correctly. To build an Address Book action plugin for 10.6, you need to compile for x86_64 or it will silently not show up. If you plan to support 10.5, you’ll need i386 as well. The template seems to build 32-bit universal (i386, ppc) by default.
Based on a discussion from StackOverflow.
Sometimes you want to inject some logic into a method you don’t control. The most common sane reason to do this is for debugging or profiling. For instance, you might want to log every time the various NSNotificationCenter methods are called so you can determine if that’s a performance bottleneck. (As I discovered myself, if you have thousands of notification observations in your system, it can be a serious performance problem.)
In most OOP languages your only option would be to subclass the object you want to instrument and then arrange for every instance of that object to be your subclass. In many cases that’s either very difficult or outright impossible, particularly if the object is used internally by a system framework. But Objective-C is highly dynamic, and message dispatching is resolved at runtime. You can modify how it works.
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