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: Sun, 16 Feb 2014 12:28:52 +0100
- Thread-topic: Display selectd sub-menuItem in NSPopUpButton
Yes, my solution is to put all the items in a simple menu without submenus
and indent the subitems, as we can see here
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Easy, simple, it works. Thank you for your suggestions. They drove me here.
Regards
-- Leonardo
> Da: <email@hidden>
> Data: Sun, 16 Feb 2014 09:45:05 +0900
> A: Leonardo <email@hidden>
> Cc: Graham Cox <email@hidden>, List Developer Cocoa
> <email@hidden>, Keary Suska <email@hidden>
> Oggetto: Re: Display selectd sub-menuItem in NSPopUpButton
>
> Now that I think about it clearly, you might want to consider something like
> NSPathControl similar to the way Xcode lets you navigate files.
> It probably makes more sense for showing a hierarchical selection in a small
> space.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> 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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