‘Tunes Menu: 10.2 versus 10.3

Fun and games making ‘Tunes Menu’ 10.2 compatible!

‘Tunes Menu‘ was written using Xcode and tested on a number of machines running 10.3. However, when the program was beta-tested on machines running 10.2 it was found not to work! The question is, “why wouldn’t it work”?

It turns out that it was a number of problems. First, 10.2 doesn’t contain the necessary features that would allow ‘Copy and Find’ to work (this was known and had already been solved in version 1.0); second it was known that 10.2 did not support ‘user initiated menu updates’ (this was known and a solved); and third, it was discovered that there were major differences in how system-wide preferences were stored and handled.

Problem 2 was solved by using a ‘run-time’ loop that automatically updates the menu every 5 seconds, plus, any ‘incoming data’ also automatically triggered a menu update.

Problem 3 was solved by putting in a check for the OS number and then using the correct calls.

This was all a bit of shock and shows how Mac OS X is maturing and changing!

PLEASE NOTE: TUNES MENU IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE AND IS NO LONGER SUPPORTED