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Re: Emulating Carbon menu bevel button?
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Re: Emulating Carbon menu bevel button?


  • Subject: Re: Emulating Carbon menu bevel button?
  • From: Jo Meder <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 14:39:35 +1200

Hi Kyle,

On 26/05/2009, at 8:04 AM, Kyle Sluder wrote:

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.

I was confusing my terminology, what I'm after is a pull down list in Cocoa terms. The HIG refers to the menus in this situation as pop-up menus though.


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.

I'd overlooked that, I've just given it a try. It still seems to cause the first menu item to disappear if you use -setMenu: though unfortunately. I realise that's the way the popup button works, it's just not very clear in the docs particularly when you set a menu explicitly. Having gone through all this I now know it's possible to get a lot closer to the Carbon control, but the Cocoa one still seems a bit awkward and less versatile.


Regards,

Jo Meder

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 >Emulating Carbon menu bevel button? (From: Jo Meder <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Emulating Carbon menu bevel button? (From: Jo Meder <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Emulating Carbon menu bevel button? (From: Kyle Sluder <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Emulating Carbon menu bevel button? (From: Jo Meder <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Emulating Carbon menu bevel button? (From: Kyle Sluder <email@hidden>)

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