On Nov 23, 2008, at 3:33 PM, Steve Christensen wrote:

On Nov 23, 2008, at 3:05 PM, Kyle Sluder wrote:

On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 6:01 PM, Steve Christensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The class methods also don't make a distinction between popup and pulldown, so I would think that the "selection" should still be marked in the menu when it's visible. I'm not trying to be argumentative, just wondering if I have, in fact, made a good or bad assumption about behavior given how every other menu I've seen works. I suppose I could manually set the individual
menu item states but that seems like work I shouldn't need to do.

I think you have made a bad assumption.  The selection bindings for
NSPopupButton consist of selectedIndex, selectedObject, selectedTag,
and selectedValue.  In order to support multiple selected items,
NSPopupButton would need a selectionIndexes binding.

Actually, I only wanted to select a single item in the pulldown case, the same as what correctly happens for me in the popup case. The problem has always been that, even though the button itself is reporting that a particular item is "selected," none of the underlying NSMenuItems' state is ever set to anything other than where it was left in IB (which is typically NSOffState). And so a check mark is never set next to the most-recently selected menu item.

Hi Steve,

Pull-down popups are used for commands, like a context menu, and therefore pull-down popups do not change the state of the selected item. This is by design, since the commands are assumed to be stateless.

If you want to change the state of the menu item, you can do so manually, but you might consider using a regular popup button or a different control entirely. A pull-down popup that acts like a matrix of radio buttons is a departure from Apple's HIG.

-Peter

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