Re: Display selectd sub-menuItem in NSPopUpButton
Re: Display selectd sub-menuItem in NSPopUpButton
- Subject: Re: Display selectd sub-menuItem in NSPopUpButton
- From: Graham Cox <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2014 21:34:36 +1100
On 15 Feb 2014, at 8:29 am, Leonardo <email@hidden> wrote:
> I would like to re-click and pre-select that meu item but I didn¹t succeed
> yet.
There isn't a good way to do that using NSPopUpButton, or menus in general, because a submenu is never laid over the actual clicked button. Items in the parent menu do, but never submenus, so there isn't a situation that the user can navigate to that can be represented by that first mouse click. Moving the mouse is possible but a pretty nasty 'solution'.
If there isn't a more appropriate UI here, you could do what I've done faced with the same problem, and that is to use bold and/or underlined text for items leading to the selected item, and preselect the first parent item in that 'path'. The user can then follow the trail of bold items to see what the control's current selected item is. It isn't ideal, but about the best I could come up with when a hierarchical menu was unavoidable.
--Graham
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