A contextual menu in a toolbar? Lets think about this for a moment.
A) such a command would be hard to discover. Your customers have other ways to
activate the same commands right? If not, why not use a popup button here?
B) I assume that's because you have an action tied to single click…. why not
look for a click and hold, then pop-up a menu a' la Safari's back/forward tool
bar buttons. Oh! and users have an alternate way to get to these actions /
settings right?
-raleigh
On Aug 25, 2011, at 3:39 PM, Indragie Karunaratne wrote:
> I just need to present a contextual menu from my custom view toolbar item,
> but NSToolbarView is not passing the right mouse events down, so
> -menuForEvent: is never called.
>
> On 2011-08-25, at 4:27 PM, Corbin Dunn wrote:
>
>> ToolbarView overrides hitTest; to do some magic; that is probably the source
>> of your problem.
>>
>> What are you trying to do?
>>
>> corbin
>>
>> On Aug 25, 2011, at 3:14 PM, Indragie Karunaratne wrote:
>>
>>> Just realized something interesting, and remembered a key detail that I
>>> forgot to mention. The view in question is a custom view inside the toolbar
>>> of the window. The NSToolbar by default has a contextual menu that appears
>>> when the customizable property is set to YES. However, even though there is
>>> no menu when customizable is set to NO, I suspected that it was still
>>> trapping right mouse events. So I used a category on the private
>>> NSToolbarView class that manages the UI for NSToolbar to check whether it
>>> was receiving the events:
>>>
>>> @interface NSToolbarView : NSView
>>> @end
>>>
>>> @interface NSToolbarView (RightMouse)
>>> @end
>>>
>>> @implementation NSToolbarView (RightMouse)
>>>
>>> - (void)rightMouseDown:(NSEvent*)theEvent
>>> {
>>> NSLog(@"right mouse");
>>> }
>>>
>>> @end
>>>
>>> And as expected, the method is called. This leaves me wondering how the
>>> toolbar view can receive the events when my own view inside the toolbar can
>>> not (as the event would have to be forwarded up the responder chain to the
>>> toolbar in order for it to receive it).
>>>
>>> On 2011-08-25, at 1:58 PM, Ken Thomases wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 11:45 AM, Indragie Karunaratne
>>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I have an NSView subclass that I'm trying to capture right clicks in. I
>>>>> override the rightMouseDown: method but it is never called.
>>>>
>>>> Any chance you simply have a typo or misspelling in your method signature?
>>>>
>>>> -Ken
>>>>
>>>
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