Re: Pull-down menu weirdness

FROM : Matt Neuburg
DATE : Mon Jul 17 21:32:38 2006

On or about 7/17/06 12:18 PM, thus spake "Keith Blount"
<<email_removed>>:

> NSPopUpButton does not support the graying on/off
> state of an NSButton. When you click the "action"
> button in Mail.app, the button turns grey when the
> menu appears. There is no way to support this in a
> standard NSPopUpButton that I can see (you can see
> that the buttons used in the MenuMadness example
> appear quite dead and do not gray).


Ah! ... Yes, you're right, of course. Take a look at OAAction in OmniAppKit;
the whole thing is implemented for you. They don't even bother to use an
NSPopUpButton (it's a subclass of an ordinary NSButton). m.

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