On Mar 9, 2010, at 8:15 PM, Keith Blount wrote: > Hi Martin, > > Does something like the following not work for you? > > NSTextAttachment *attachment = [[textView textStorage] > attribute:NSAttachmentAttributeName atIndex:charIndex effectiveRange:NULL]; > > if (attachment)// Possibly check it’s of the kind of attachment you want to > handle, too > return myCustomMenu; > > I just did a quick test and this seemed to work fine with an image > attachment. (As I say, I override -menuForEvent: for Tiger support, but I do > pretty much the same there, only having to do the extra work and convert the > event's -locationInWindow to an index manually.) >
Thanks a lot, Keith. That looks like the thing I need but somehow I didn't find it. I'll give it a try. Martin > All the best, > Keith > > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Martin Hewitson <martin.hewit...@aei.mpg.de> > To: Keith Blount <keithblo...@yahoo.com> > Cc: Martin Hewitson <martin.hewit...@aei.mpg.de>; cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com > Sent: Tue, March 9, 2010 6:58:15 PM > Subject: Re: NSTextView attachments and context menus > > Hi Keith, > > >> As (the other) Martin says, you can subclass NSTextView and override >> -menuForEvent: for this, which is the best way of doing it if you need to >> provide support for systems running versions of OS X earlier than Leopard. >> If you only need to support Leopard or above, though, Leopard introduced a >> delegate method which should do the same thing and obviate the need to >> subclass: >> >> - (NSMenu *)textView:(NSTextView *)view menu:(NSMenu *)menu >> forEvent:(NSEvent *)event atIndex:(NSUInteger)charIndex >> > > Yes, I went down this route a little, but I was unable to figure out how to > check for an attachment at that character index. I guess I need to look at > this again. It seems like the elegant way to go since I only support Leopard > and above. > > Thanks again, > > Martin > >> So you should just be able to check for an attachment at charIndex and if >> one is detected return your own custom menu; otherwise return the standard >> menu that is passed in. (Note that I've never used this delegate method >> myself, though, as my app still needs to support Tiger, so I use Martin's >> way.) >> >> All the best, >> Keith >> >> --- Original Message --- >> >> Dear list, >> >> I have an NSTextView which support dragging files in, either to create a >> link to the file, or to add the file as an attachment. So far so good. >> >> Now I want to offer the user a context menu to perform operations on the >> attachment (open, save, etc). So far I was unable to find a way to intercept >> a 'right-click' on the nstextview to offer a custom context menu. What I did >> get working is the single left-click version by implementing >> textView:clickedOnCell:inRect:atIndex: in the text view's delegate. In that >> method I create a context menu and show it at the mouse location using >> NSMenu's popUpContextMenu:withEvent:forView:. That works, but with one >> problem. The context menu that appears has two additional menu items: >> "Import Image" and "Capture Selection from Screen". So I have three >> questions: >> >> 1) Is there a better way to achieve what I want? >> 2) Where do these additional menu items come from? Are they services? >> 3) How could I do this with a right-click instead of a single-click? >> >> I have another question about attachments, but I'll post that separately. >> >> Thanking you in advance, >> >> Martin >> >> >> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Martin Hewitson > Albert-Einstein-Institut > Max-Planck-Institut fuer > Gravitationsphysik und Universitaet Hannover > Callinstr. 38, 30167 Hannover, Germany > Tel: +49-511-762-17121, Fax: +49-511-762-5861 > E-Mail: martin.hewit...@aei.mpg.de > WWW: http://www.aei.mpg.de/~hewitson > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Martin Hewitson Albert-Einstein-Institut Max-Planck-Institut fuer Gravitationsphysik und Universitaet Hannover Callinstr. 38, 30167 Hannover, Germany Tel: +49-511-762-17121, Fax: +49-511-762-5861 E-Mail: martin.hewit...@aei.mpg.de WWW: http://www.aei.mpg.de/~hewitson ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ _______________________________________________ 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
