On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 5:53 PM, Rua Haszard Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am trying to implement a mini-size, square bevel button that pops up a > menu, i.e. a popup button with a square appearance and mini size, but have > not found a way to achieve this. > > NSPopupButton does not support square button appearance, and doesn't support > setControlSize: (though it can of course be an arbitrary size). > > I have seen some suggestions for how to achieve this, for example making a > NSPopupButton over the top of a square NSButton and setting the > NSPopupButton transparent. This works but there are draw issues; sometimes a > rounded white area appears around the NSButton (note that I have set the > size & location of the popup button to match the button, so the clicks are > handled appropriately). I also had a look at NSMenu popUpContextMenu:, but > this did not seem appropriate, as it seems solely for right-click/context > menus. > > How can I do this? I want to avoid having to write the mouse tracking code > if at all possible, so the popup behaves exactly like a system one. I'm not > clear on how to do this either..
This is where the view/cell division becomes handy. You can use an NSPopUpButtonCell inside your view to do this. Don't ask it to draw (since you're drawing other things), but when you get a mouse down event you can pass it to the cell which will then pop up the menu in the normal fashion. Mike _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
