Re: Contextual menu for Text fields/views?

FROM : Douglas Davidson
DATE : Sun Dec 19 22:26:55 2004

On Dec 19, 2004, at 1:16 PM, Thomas Lachand-Robert wrote:


> Le 19 déc. 04, à 21:45, Seth Willits a écrit :
>

>> On Dec 19, 2004, at 12:39 PM, Thomas Lachand-Robert wrote:
>>

>>> There is a default contextual menu for all text views, and also for
>>> text field (though I suspect it is the field editor's menu), with
>>> items like cut/copy/spell etc.
>>>
>>> What is the way to add some items to this contextual menu?
>>>
>>> Also is it possible to have a contextual menu in NSBox? Doing so in
>>> IB (connecting the "menu" outlet) doesn't work in either case.

>>
>> If you set the menu (setMenu or just use the outlet) of any view,
>> it'll use that menu as the contextual menu.
>>
>>
>>

>
> No it doesn't. I have set a menu in IB to a NSBox and a NSTextField. I
> get no contextual menu in the box, and I get the "standard" contextual
> menu for text views in the thext field.


The contextual menu used while editing a text field is supplied by the
field editor.  Note that NSTextView's contextual menu starts with [self
menu], but can be significantly modified in its menuForEvent: method.

Douglas Davidson