Re: NSPopupButton on Toolbar with Image instead?

FROM : Peter Ammon
DATE : Tue Jan 15 20:30:49 2008

On Jan 15, 2008, at 9:45 AM, Mitchell Hashimoto wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to get the XCode style contextual menu to popup when a
> button is clicked on my toolbar (such as the "Build" button if you
> hold it), but I can't figure out exactly how to do this!
>
> Should I be subclassing NSPopupButton? NSButtonCell? Is there an
> easier way for me to do this?


Hi Mitchell,

I'd say the easiest way to do this is with a single segment, 
momentary style NSSegmentedControl.  You can assign both a menu and 
an action to the control to get this behavior.  Because segmented 
controls always draw their bezels, you should override drawRect: if 
you want it to look like Xcode's buttons.

I hope that helps,
-Peter