Re: Programmatically highlighting an NSMenuItem
Re: Programmatically highlighting an NSMenuItem
- Subject: Re: Programmatically highlighting an NSMenuItem
- From: Graham Cox <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2010 02:38:06 +1000
On 09/07/2010, at 2:30 AM, Augusto Callejas wrote:
> i'm trying to replicate the functionality of spotlight using an embedded NSSearchField inside an NSMenu.
> when a search is performed, i add NSMenuItems to the NSMenu. when you perform a search in spotlight,
> the first search result is highlighted and you can immediately use the up/down arrows to traverse the
> results. i'd like to do the same by highlighting the first result in my NSMenu (which is an NSMenuItem).
> since spotlight has the same behavior, then it seems like an experience a user is familiar with.
It looks to me as if Spotlight isn't a menu at all, it's just putting up a window that looks a bit like one (not that there's much of a distinction anyway, NSMenus are windows internally).
Maybe just do the whole thing in a custom view?
--Graham
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