This is the third time I'm posting this, but it seems it doesn't come through. Apologies if they all show up at once.
---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 8:08 PM Subject: NSMenu problems To: cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com Hello! I've got a couple of problems with NSMenu. 1) All menu items have a custom view. Therefore the default action for the menu item never gets called. Instead, I'm catching the mouse up event in my custom view and call the appropriate selector from there. This works fine. The problem I'm having is when navigating the menu with the keyboard. When I select a menu item and hit return the menu is simply dismissed. I have tried catching the keyboard event but have no idea where it goes. It is not catched by the custom view, nor the menu's delegate or app controller. 2) The menu has a custom search field as its first item. When I press the arrow down key I'd like it to select the menu item under the search field (this is a regular NSMenuItem). I can catch the moveDown: command in the text field's - (BOOL)control:(NSControl *)control textView:(NSTextView *)textView doCommandBySelector:(SEL)command delegate method. But I cannot find any way to programmatically select a menu item. I dug around in AppKit and found a private method named _setHighlightedItem:informingDelegate:. This method does indeed seem to change the selection, sort of: when I log the current selection it reports the correct menu item. But it doesn't visually highlight this item. I also tried simulating a arrow key down/up event (after setting the first responder to the menu's window) but it didn't work either. 3) When typing in the search field, the menu is updated to show the search results. This means the width of the menu is expanded to fit the new items. But when I clear the search field and the menu items are reset to their default values, the menu doesn't shrink again. Calling the deprecated sizeToFit method has no effect. I hope you can help me out here. Thanks. Kind regards, Fabian _______________________________________________ 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
