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Re: Change a NSMenu's shape?



Hi Peter,

No, I don't think there's a way to make a pop up button's menu look
like a status item's menu.

Can you use -[NSStatusItem setMenu:]?  If not, could you please file a
bug describing why?

Thanks,
Ken
Cocoa Frameworks

On Nov 10, 2007 1:15 AM, Peter Maurer <email@hidden> wrote:
> In Leopard, menus that pop up via ...
>
> + (void)popUpContextMenu:(NSMenu *)menu withEvent:(NSEvent *)event
> forView:(NSView *)view [withFont:(NSFont *)font]
>
> ... are always displayed with rounded corners, which looks just wrong
> with menus for certain kinds of custom pop-up buttons and, most
> importantly, NSStatusItems that pop up their menus themselves --
> instead of using NSStatusItem's built-in menu functionality.
>
> On the other hand, generic menu bar menus _are_ displayed with sharp
> upper corners.
>
> So I was wondering: Is anyone aware of a way to change those corners
> for a NSMenu or its underlying Carbon menu?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Peter.
>
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