Re: Display selectd sub-menuItem in NSPopUpButton
Re: Display selectd sub-menuItem in NSPopUpButton
- Subject: Re: Display selectd sub-menuItem in NSPopUpButton
- From: Leonardo <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2014 19:00:53 +0100
- Thread-topic: Display selectd sub-menuItem in NSPopUpButton
I think there should be a way to just open and display the submenus and
highlight a menu item, even if the mouse is elsewhere.
Then if the mouse moves and select a different menuItem, ok, I do.
Otherwise, at the mouseUp, if the mouse didn't move or it is out of the menu
area, I leave the previous menuItem selected.
John, if you agree, I can send you the xcode project to your email address
only, since on the list we can't attach documents. Or I can load it on
github.com.
Regards
-- Leonardo
> Da: Graham Cox <email@hidden>
> Data: Sat, 15 Feb 2014 21:34:36 +1100
> A: Leonardo <email@hidden>
> Cc: List Developer Cocoa <email@hidden>
> Oggetto: Re: Display selectd sub-menuItem in NSPopUpButton
>
>
> 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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