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Re: Menu-less popup buttons
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Re: Menu-less popup buttons


  • Subject: Re: Menu-less popup buttons
  • From: Gwynne <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 19:00:05 -0400

On May 20, 2004, at 5:56 PM, Daniel Todd Currie wrote:
Perhaps you should take a few steps back and very generally describe what you are trying to do...

From what you have described, I would discourage doing what you want to do. The reason is that a pop-down arrow in OS X universally means that a menu will be presented when the arrow is clicked. Any aberration from this principle will likely confuse the user.

Perhaps you simply want a disclosure triangle?

Create a Carbon window in IB. Create a popup menu, and resize it using the left center handle to as small a width as possible. What you end up with is the blue portion with the two arrows, and nothing else. It still creates a menu when run. The same technique does not work with Cocoa's popup button. I want to have a menu, I just don't want the current item displayed. The ultimate effect I want is almost like a combo box, but I want a popup menu, not a drop-down.

-- Gwynne, key to the Code that runs us all
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