Re: How do I trigger IBAction with custom "button" based on NSView...

FROM : I. Savant
DATE : Thu Jan 03 20:51:23 2008

> I have an NSView that has custom drawing and "hotspot". I want to be
> able to connect it to an IBAction function on my controller. However,
> in my hitTest (or mouseDown), I need to somehow trigger any attached
> action.


  Your problem is that you're fighting the frameworks. Create your own
custom NSButton/NSButtonCell classes, move your drawing routines to
the cell class, and be done with it. It's *not* that much harder and
you get all the free, wonderful things that come with a
much-better-designed UI element than a simple NSView with an
overridden -mouseDown: method could give you.

  Oh, and read up on the Target/Action mechanisms in Cocoa.

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I.S.