Re: Showing submenu item in an NSPopUpButton

FROM : Andrew Platzer
DATE : Wed Apr 27 23:19:02 2005

On Apr 25, 2005, at 4:56 PM, Ian was here wrote:
> I created a menu with submenus, then attached it to my
> NSPopUpButton. The issue that I'm having is that when
> a submenu item is selected, it won't show up in the
> popup button (the submenu item is selected OK and
> performs it's task). I tried to force the popup button
> to show submenu items by setting it's title with the
> selected sub-item. It just added the submenu item to
> the normal menu area.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas for getting submenu items
> to display?


Take a look at -[NSPopUpButtonCell setUsesItemFromMenu:].
If this flag is set to NO, then you can set the popup cell's menu 
item using -[NSPopUpButtonCell setMenuItem:] to the item selected 
regardless of where the item is located and the popup will display 
that item instead of the selected one.

Andrew Platzer
Application Frameworks
Apple Computer, Inc.