Tim -- you are right. I am talking about NSMenu, but your original
email seems to indicate that is what you wanted:
Fair comment, my initial wording really wasnt that great :)
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).
Sounds like its best to stick to a context menu for the time being.
The obvious one that uses HUD on right click is Interface builder.... :)
Thats why I was thinking of using a HUD rather than a context menu, as
some of the parameters I need to set are not "context menu friendly".
What are your thoughts?
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.
Its actually on a NSOutlineView - is the same applicable?
Cheers
Tim
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