Re: Displaying a menu at arbitrary location.
Re: Displaying a menu at arbitrary location.
- Subject: Re: Displaying a menu at arbitrary location.
- From: Nicholas Riley <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 12 May 2002 17:23:13 -0500
- Mail-followup-to: Gideon King <email@hidden>, email@hidden
On Sun, May 12, 2002 at 08:59:53PM +0800, Gideon King wrote:
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I am implementing a pop-up icon button as described in the HI guidelines
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document. In order to do this, I need to be able to display a menu just
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below the button that is clicked, aligned with the left side of the
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button. As NSMenu doesn't have any relationship with NSView, I'm not
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sure how to display the menu where I want it.
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NSPopupButton doesn't help as the menus don't display in the right place
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and also won't display large images. Context menus don't seem to help as
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there seems no way to control where they display.
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Any pointers on how to display a menu where I want it would be
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appreciated.
The best you can do in Cocoa, afaik, is to pop up a menu (see NSMenu
docs). But this essentially creates a contextual menu, which means
contextual menu plugins get inserted, and that can be very ugly.
Otherwise I think you need to use Carbon.
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=Nicholas Riley <email@hidden> | <
http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/njriley>
Pablo Research Group, Department of Computer Science and
Medical Scholars Program, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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