This would make more sense if I explained what the view itself was. Long story
short, it's a pretty huge (and important) custom control that runs all the way
across the toolbar. There are other ways to access the commands (via the
application menus + shortcuts) but I would also like to have a contextual menu.
On 2011-08-25, at 4:52 PM, Raleigh Ledet wrote:
> 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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