On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 9:55 PM, Rua Haszard Morris <r.haszardmor...@adinstruments.com> wrote: > I am using a pull-down NSPopUpButton for a little button which displays a > little menu. The menu has some commands in it, i.e. it's not a selection > menu, the title of the button just displays an icon, no title, no indication > of a current item from the menu. I am calling (ahem, sending) > setUsesItemFromMenu:NO on (to) the cell. > > It appears that with pull-down menus I need to insert a dummy item at index > zero as my NSPopUpButton as a placeholder, and that NSPopUpButton/Cell (when > in pull-down mode) will handily ignore this item. > > This seems like a weird hack, and makes me think I'm going about this the > wrong way - is this a normal approach? > > The documentation mentions that the index of the first item in a pull-down > should be 1, but it doesn't explain that you need to add a dummy item (for > the zeroth) or else your first item will go missing.
Don't forget to check the conceptual docs: http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/MenuList/Articles/ManagingPopUpItems.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/20000274 Partway down it says: "Note that in a pull-down list, the first item is stored at index 1, not index 0 as is the case with pop-up lists or ordinary menus. This is done so that the pull-down list’s title can be stored at index 0 if necessary. Even when the title is stored at index 0, always change the buttons title with the setTitle: method." So yes, this is the typical way to do things. 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 arch...@mail-archive.com
