Re: implementing pop up menus

FROM : James McCartney
DATE : Sat Jan 18 19:24:17 2003

On Saturday, January 18, 2003, at 05:32 AM, mw wrote:

>> OK I've got an NSView subclass that contains widgets that are not
>> NSViews. I want to have a mouse click in certain locations pop up a
>> menu selection. I can do that using
>> NSMenu popUpContextMenu:withEvent:forView:
>> but afaik, the above method does not give me control over what item is
>> under the mouse when it pops up. The above only seems useful for
>> contextual menus. I need to call whatever NSPopUpButton uses to bring
>> up a menu. What is that?

>
> Why don't you just make an instance variable in your custom class of
> type
> NSMenu that holds the menu you want to pop up? That way, when you get a
> mouseDown event, you can simply use that NSMenu in
> popUpContextMenu:withEvent:forView:
>


That's not the problem. I have a menu and it is popping up. The problem
is that with popUpContextMenu:withEvent:forView: the menu is not
aligned where I want it and it does not pop up selecting the menu item
that I want.

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