Re: Fish Eye Custom NSMenu Sample Code

FROM : Ian Grant
DATE : Thu Nov 08 21:30:17 2007

Thanks for your reply, Murat. I think I found the source (or similar 
to what I remember) - it was not Cocoa but Java UI code. I still have 
a feeling I've seen this in cocoa / ojb-c

<http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/fisheyemenu/fisheyemenu-demo.shtml>

Thanks for the heads-up on hyperbolic trees.

All the best, Ian

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Faculty of the Arts
Thames Valley University
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W5 5DX
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On 6 Nov 2007, at 21:57, Murat Konar wrote:

> The kind of menu you're asking about is generally known as a 
> "hyperbolic tree". An example can be seen at:
>
> <http://www.directionsmag.com/images/articles/reid/scip/CitationTree-2b.gif

> >
>
> I'd be surprised if there were a NSMenu based example of this since 
> NSMenu isn't really customizable in the ways needed to implement a 
> hyperbolic tree.
>
>
> _murat
>
> On Nov 6, 2007, at 1:23 PM, Ian Grant wrote:
>

>> I remember some (possibly) cocoa sample code that may have been 
>> from Apple, that demonstrated how to create a custom NSMenu with a 
>> huge number of items but using the 'fish-eye' visual trick of 
>> scaling those near the mouse (with a fall off to a tiny font size). 
>> Does anyone else recall this sample code - I'm having trouble 
>> finding reference to it (on google and on these lists).