Re: Display selectd sub-menuItem in NSPopUpButton
Re: Display selectd sub-menuItem in NSPopUpButton
- Subject: Re: Display selectd sub-menuItem in NSPopUpButton
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2014 03:09:37 +0900
Hi Leonardo
You can post it to github or email it but I honestly don't believe there's an API that will do what you want it to do. At least nothing that will do it well.
Certainly not gracefully. And it would be a lot of work that would get you little return.
You'll have to try to control the mouse cursor and it's going to be a weird user experience.
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> On 2014/02/16, at 3:00, Leonardo <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> 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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