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Re: Fake NSMenu-like view


  • Subject: Re: Fake NSMenu-like view
  • From: Guy English <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 01:45:19 -0500

Hi Daniel,

Ok, you got me intrigued so I hacked something together. I don't think the NSMatrix approach is the right one. I think you'll end up beating on it longer than it'll take to code something new. And eventually some limitation will bite you.

Here's a screenshot of what I got working: http://www.kickingbear.com/ Source/Spotlightesque.png
And you can get the code here: http://www.kickingbear.com/Source/ Spotlightesque.zip


It's a bit of a rush job and I wouldn't want anyone taking it as the pinnacle of design but it works, it's easy to use, and it looks and feels a lot like the Spotlight menu. It's got one data source method, one delegate method and/or a target/action setup. It needs some final tweaks to make it prettier and more configurable but it's a good start.

Hope that helps,
Guy


On 29-Jan-06, at 3:59 PM, Daniel Jalkut wrote:


I want to develop a "fake menu" view such that I can present UI somewhat like the "menu" that appears below a Spotlight query when invoked from the menu bar.


Does anybody have any advice? It doesn't have to be so much like a real menu. That is, it won't need things like hierarchical displays or keyboard shortcut symbols, etc. But it needs to present text in the menu font against the faintly-striped background (fortunately I think that's the standard window background).

I'm leaning towards using an NSMatrix with a cell that simply knows how to select itself "menu style". Has anybody already done this? Is there sample/free code out there that I'm overlooking?

Thanks!

Daniel

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