I would like to create a custom menu item much like the search item
used in Leopard's Help or Spotlight menus.
I thought this ought to be simple under Leopard, as it is now
possible to add an arbitrary view to a menu item. This however only
gets me 80% of the way and I am not even sure a working solution
lies in that direction. The problem is that the custom view does
not cover all of the menu item. There remains a border above and
below of my view.
- Is there a way to stretch my view over those borders?
- Where does the menu do its drawing? NSMenuItem is neither a view
nor a cell. I believe the custom view takes NSMenuItemCell out of
the loop.
- What was the pre-Leopard way of doing this? I remember something
about going down to Carbon, but can't find much information on the
web.
Best,
Pierre
Hi Pierre,
I don't know about Leopard (yet), but on Tiger you can add any
arbitrary image to a menu item. In the code below, "colours" is a
rainbow-like image 22 px by 100 px. The variable "title" is an empty
string. This works on Tiger with no border around the image. I
haven't experimented with larger images, but they might work on Leopard.
