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

FROM : Nat Edar
DATE : Thu Jan 03 20:57:26 2008

The subject line may be a little misleading as to what I'm doing--I'm 
not really making a traditional button.

I'm making a panel (with a clickable heading) that is part of a 
ListViewList/Accordion. In light of that, I need to alert the 
accordion controller to animate its subviews to collapse and expand 
with animation.

On Jan 3, 2008, at 11:51 AM, I. Savant wrote:

>> 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.
>
> --
> I.S.