Thanks for the reply. Ive been looking at the DragNDropOutlineView
example, and I found this comment
"On MacOS 10.5 and later, in willDisplayCell: we can dynamically set
the contextual menu (right click menu) for a particular cell. If
nothing is set, then the contextual menu for the NSOutlineView
itself will be used. We will set a different menu for the
"Expandable?" column, and leave the default one for everything else."
Which Im guessing is what you meant about making it easier in 10.5?
Isn't that using NSMenu however? rather than a panel which I belie
those little HUD windows are?
Tim -- you are right. I am talking about NSMenu, but your original
email seems to indicate that is what you wanted:
What I would like to end up with is on my outline view (that already
works no problems), when the user right-clicks one of the rows, I
would like that one to become the selected row, and a context menu
to popup beside, from which I can set some parameters. I have read
about the menu outlet, but im not sure if thats the right way to go,
and even if it is, what it needs to be connected to?
A context menu is a regular menu; not a HUD. I would discourage you
from creating UI that does something other than pop up a context menu
on the right click; it won't be what people expect, and isn't easily
discoverable. Apps that use HUD's typically bring them up in some
other way. For instance, they have a button in the cell to bring it
up, a toolbar item (Aperture), or an item in the context menu itself
(iCal).
If you really want to do a HUD, you will probably have to subclass
NSTableView, override mouseDown:, call super (to do all the work of
tracking and changing the selection), and then show your HUD if it was
a right click.
