On Apr 9, 2010, at 15:17, Nick Zitzmann wrote: > > On Apr 9, 2010, at 3:42 PM, Laurent Daudelin wrote: > >> However, the selection is the standard highlight, not the outline I see in >> any other table views in other Apple applications. > > I think the "drop highlighting" thing a few Apple apps do is accomplished > through a private API. I wouldn't worry about it too much, since you'd be > amazed at how many people don't even know that contextual menus exist (unless > your target market is exclusively power users), but you can probably do this > yourself by overriding the row drawing method to draw a similar-looking > bezier path over the top of the row.
I was looking into this myself, as I like the little ovally highlight that you get in 10.6 when you right click on items in a table view other than the currently selected item. I have the need to be able to return different menus based on the item that I am right clicking on and to accomplish that I had overridden menuForEvent. I was disappointed that I didn't get that fancy 10.6 highlight when doing so. However, I have found that if you call [super menuForEvent:event] in your overridden method, you will still get the ovally highlight. One point to note, however, is that doing that on 10.5 and *not* selecting the row causes you to get a box highlight on the row, with an empty background. So in the end I am doing a check to see if I am running on 10.5. If I am, I just change the row selection to the row where the event was fired and then do my menu determination. If it's not 10.5, I call the [super menuForEvent:event] call and go on my merry way. Hope that helps, Ryan_______________________________________________ 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
