The widget.createMenu method is not officially supported. That said it is
very unlikely that we would remove it. We will not be posting any
documentation about it to this list though.
Thanks,
jl
> Hi,
>
> I've just joined the list, and apologize if this has been discussed
> before, but I searched the archives and couldn't find anything
> relevant.
>
> I've noticed that some of the Apple widgets (specifically, the
> Weather, Phone Book, and Stock widgets) create a pop-up menu using
> calls like:
>
> var menu = widget.createMenu();
> menu.addMenuItem(string);
> var selectedItem = menu.popup( 32, 80);
>
> My question is - what API is being used here? Is it documented
> somewhere? (I looked, but couldn't find any documentation.) Can I,
> or should I, use this method of creating pop-up menus in my widget?
>
> My goal is to have a button on the backside of my widget that behaves
> like a standard Mac OS X bevel button or icon button with a pop-up
> menu, that is, you press the button, and a menu appears *below* the
> button.
>
> I couldn't figure out how to accomplish this with a standard <select>
> element pop-up menu; I can easily use one to create the effect where
> the pop-up menu is hidden and appears on top of the button when the
> button is clicked, but not how to make a menu appear below the button
> when the button was clicked. I could accomplish this, sort of, using
> a <select> element with a scrollbar, but that's not the look I was
> hoping to have.
>
> The widget menu object seems like it would do what I want, but I
> wanted more information about it before attempting to use it, and to
> make sure it wasn't some unsupported thing I wasn't supposed to
> touch. (I also had questions like "does the widget menu object have
> a method that I can use to put a checkmark next to an menu item?")
>
> Thanks for any advice,
>
> --Scott McGuire / email@hidden
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