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Re: Dynamically populate a popup menu
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Re: Dynamically populate a popup menu


  • Subject: Re: Dynamically populate a popup menu
  • From: Steven Degutis <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 11:00:18 -0500

While NSMenuDelegate isn't wrong per se, I still prefer to use the
NSPopUpButton's notification myself. Touching the button's internal menu
seems like dipping my fingers where they don't belong.

-Steven

On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 10:41 AM, Jean-Daniel Dupas
<email@hidden>wrote:

>
> See NSMenuDelegate protocol.
> There is some method to dynamically populate the menu.
>
> Le 17 févr. 2010 à 16:09, Steven Degutis a écrit :
>
> > Check out NSPopUpButton's NSPopUpButtonWillPopUpNotification
> >
> > On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 2:49 AM, Peter N Lewis <email@hidden
> >wrote:
> >
> >> Is there any way to dynamically populate a popup menu on the fly (as it
> is
> >> exposed)?
> >>
> >> For example, a popup menu that displayed the harddisk hierarchy would
> need
> >> this sort of thing - you wouldn't want the entire thing populated as
> soon as
> >> you click the popup menu, it would take forever and the user would never
> see
> >> most of it.
> >>
> >> Can it be done by subclassing NSMenuItem etc?
> >>
> >> The only alternative I can see would be some sort of custom control
> based
> >> on NSBrowser, but that would be a lot uglier for this sort of selection.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>  Peter.
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 >Re: Dynamically populate a popup menu (From: Steven Degutis <email@hidden>)
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