Comments on: Capturing Middle-Mouse Click in Safari

By: Joey Gibson

Joey Gibson — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 13:18:12 +0000

Yep. Plugin is available here http://joeygibson.com/blog/tech/mac/middle_click_close_for_safari.html

By: Giga

Giga — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 20:19:38 +0000

Any word on the plugin? I’m dying for a middle click close for Safari. Cheers.

By: Teun van Eijsden

Teun van Eijsden — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 21:58:13 +0000

Please Joey, give us the power to middle-click-close tabs.
I’d absolutely LOVE to have this.

By: Joey Gibson

Joey Gibson — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 03:57:21 +0000

Yes, actually. I got my plugin working and I use it every day. I keep meaning to package it up and release it, but I haven’t gotten around to it. Maybe I’ll try to do it tomorrow.

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 23:12:53 +0000

Hi,
Have you had any luck in solving this problem? I’d love to be able to middle-click tabs to close them like I do in Firefox, and I’m finding it quite frustrating that you can’t!
Thanks.

By: Mark Rowe

Mark Rowe — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 18:25:50 +0000

Clearly that should be “inside mouseUp:”. Checking for a NS*MouseUp event type inside mouseDown: wouldn’t get you very far either :-)

By: Mark Rowe

Mark Rowe — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 10:18:56 +0000

Oh, and to trap the middle-click event you simply need to check [theEvent type] == NSOtherMouseUp inside mouseDown:. There isn’t a separate method per mouse button.

By: Mark Rowe

Mark Rowe — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 10:14:06 +0000

One big issue with your code is that TabButton doesn’t implement mouseUp: or rightMouseUp:. The implementations of those methods must be inherited from a superclass, probably NSButton or a class further up the hierarchy. Take a look at http://kevin.sb.org/articles/2006/12/30/method-swizzling-reimplemented for a safer way to use method swizzling that deals with inheritance correctly.

By: Joey Gibson

Joey Gibson — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 19:25:43 +0000

The 2nd time through I skipped that challenge!
As for a 3rd edition, I’m glad to hear it, though with the addition of GC, it will probably mean a shorter book. :-)
I don’t have the advanced book, because I read some negative comments at Amazon that made it sound more like a general Unix programming book than a Mac-specific book. I may pick it up later.

By: Robert McGovern

Robert McGovern — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 19:10:05 +0000

Cool … did you run into the problem again on your second time through the book? Have you got Aaron’s other book, the advanced one?
Also did you know that there is a third edition coming out later in the year, likely timed against the release of Leopard. Slightly annoying having bought it last week, but still bettter to start learning now than later. Though I am looking forward to the Garbage Collection!
Coming up with cool apps is always the difficult bit, personally I want to write a music program a bit like Media Monkey on Windows. iTunes just doesn’t do anything for me, other than generally annoy me.
Have you come across the 3 main Cocoa pod casts?
Latenight Cocoa
Cocoa Cast
Cocoa Radio?