Re: Contextual menu for Text fields/views?

FROM : Seth Willits
DATE : Mon Dec 20 21:43:05 2004

On Dec 20, 2004, at 12:36 AM, Thomas Lachand-Robert wrote:

> I don't see where there is a NSTextView in a NSTextField. I will try
> to hook it directly in the field editor in code. For the NSBox, thanks
> for the tip: that would explain why it doesn't work for me, since my
> box has no title. I don't understand why it doesn't work for the
> background of the box, though?


Whoops. Sorry. I didn't realize that it was NSTextField. I guess since
I've been using NSTextView's so much lately that that's what I thought
it said. But you're right, it doesn't show up in an NSTextField. I've
tried connecting it in the nib, setting it in code ([field
setMenu:menu]) and setting the field's cell's menu ([[field cell]
setMenu:menu]) and none of those worked. I'm pretty much stumped there.

As for the box, I think the background of the view has to be a certain
opacity or something. I could be way off, but you could try overriding
the menuForEvent method or maybe the mouseDown if it still doesn't
work.



-- Seth Willits