Re: NSPopupButton menu not showing in custom view for NSMenuItem
Re: NSPopupButton menu not showing in custom view for NSMenuItem
- Subject: Re: NSPopupButton menu not showing in custom view for NSMenuItem
- From: Daniel Meachum <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 08 Jan 2010 11:04:42 +0900
Thank you Mr. Cox and Mr. Schlegel for your help. I'm using the nsmenuitem view to be displayed when clicking a status item (from the menu bar). Would it be better to display the view another way? Maybe in a window attached at the point of the status item?
On Jan 8, 2010, at 9:21 AM, Graham Cox wrote:
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> On 08/01/2010, at 5:48 AM, Eric Schlegel wrote:
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>> On Jan 7, 2010, at 7:16 AM, Daniel Meachum wrote:
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>>> I'm trying to use an NSPopupButton inside of a view nested in an NSMenuItem (development for OS X 10.6 only). The menu is created but it refuses to popup/out of the button. No Console messages are displayed or UI feedback. I originally found the problem while programmatically creating the view but also reproduced it in IB with the following steps:
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>> So you're trying to display the menu attached to the NSPopupButton, while the menu containing the NSPopupButton is open? That won't work - the Menu Manager doesn't support recursive display of menus.
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> Not to mention that this is a travesty of UI design. If you want a submenu of a menu item, why not just use a - uhm, submenu?
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> --Graham
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