Re: NSPopupButton on Toolbar with Image instead?

FROM : Mitchell Hashimoto
DATE : Tue Jan 15 21:18:04 2008

Hi Peter,

I looked this up and the SegmentedControl looks perfect if I could get
rid of the bezel. I'm not sure exactly how to do this by ovverriding
drawRect... could you please expand upon this a little bit more? Thank
you!

On Jan 15, 2008 11:30 AM, Peter Ammon <<email_removed>> wrote:
>
> 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
>
>