Re: Emulating Carbon menu bevel button?
Re: Emulating Carbon menu bevel button?
- Subject: Re: Emulating Carbon menu bevel button?
- From: Kyle Sluder <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 13:04:26 -0700
On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 2:42 AM, Jo Meder <email@hidden> wrote:
> I can go with that, although it has been a choice to have the menu on the
> right with the arrow bottom right facing right for a long time on Carbon.
> It's been the option I've used most, but I'm happy to go the other way now
> it seems to be the only one endorsed in the HIG. The arrow is still really
> big though.
You're right; that's an annoying bug. File away, maybe they'll
eventually fix it.
> That's what I'm doing, by emulating the Carbon control. I think this is a
> deficiency in Cocoa, I don't see how it's possible implement the bevel
> button with a popup menu as shown in the HIG, where the button represents
> the menu title and always displays the same image. The Carbon control is a
> very useful one which I've been using for over a decade I suppose. I was
> just interested to know if anyone else had done this and what approach they
> took.
So what you want is a pull-down menu, not a pop-up menu? Same class,
different behavior.
If you do want the pop-up behavior, minus the changing of the button
title, look at -[NSPopUpButtonCell setUsesItemFromMenu:]. Be careful,
though, I've found it to be pretty buggy.
--Kyle Sluder
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