Re: Hiding an NSMenu, or making keyboard shortcuts not tied to a menu item?
Re: Hiding an NSMenu, or making keyboard shortcuts not tied to a menu item?
- Subject: Re: Hiding an NSMenu, or making keyboard shortcuts not tied to a menu item?
- From: Eric Schlegel <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 09:54:51 -0700
On Wednesday, July 16, 2003, at 6:51 PM, Nick Zitzmann wrote:
In one application I'm trying to make an NSMenu that is hidden from
the user, so it doesn't get drawn on the screen, but it does respond
to keyboard commands like Command-whatever.
How do I do this? I can't find any way in the reference or in IB to
make an NSMenu hidden. I already tried placing a pull-down menu inside
a window and hiding it behind a custom view, but it would only show up
anyway as a half-transparent menu. I think iTunes does something like
this; can this only be done in Carbon?
It's possible to do this with Carbon APIs, in 10.2 and later. Basically
you just create an insert a menu into the menubar as usual, but you
also set the Hidden attribute on the menu, so the menu doesn't show up
in the menubar. (There's a bug in 10.2 that allows the menu to be
displayed if you're keyboard-navigating the menubar; that's fixed in
Panther).
I don't believe NSMenu currently exports the Hidden menu attribute via
a method, so you probably can't do this entirely in Cocoa.
-eric
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