Re: NSPopUpButton pullsDown:YES and dummy first item - normal?
Re: NSPopUpButton pullsDown:YES and dummy first item - normal?
- Subject: Re: NSPopUpButton pullsDown:YES and dummy first item - normal?
- From: Michael Ash <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 16:56:07 -0400
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 7:58 AM, Graham Cox <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> On 02/04/2009, at 12:55 PM, Rua Haszard Morris wrote:
>
>> This seems like a weird hack, and makes me think I'm going about this the
>> wrong way - is this a normal approach?
>
> I'm afraid so. I think the reason could be (pre)historic - the original
> Carbon Menu Manager (which Cocoa sits atop) constructed menus this way. It
> sucks, has always sucked, and looks likely that (as it has never been
> changed despite the vast catalogue of other changes elsewhere) will always
> suck.
I doubt this is the case. NSPopUpButton long predates Mac OS X and
therefore existed long before it was implemented on top of the Menu
Manager. Sounds like convergent evolution to me. A silly choice I
agree, but somehow it got made twice.
Mike
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