Re: Simulating menu bar blink in Cocoa

FROM : Randall Meadows
DATE : Thu Apr 17 20:16:05 2008

On Apr 17, 2008, at 12:05 PM, John Stiles wrote:
> Randall Meadows wrote:

>> On Apr 17, 2008, at 11:54 AM, John Stiles wrote:

>>> As previously explained here, I'm handling hotkeys in my app via 
>>> custom code in order to work around some AppKit bugs.
>>>
>>> How can I simulate the menu-title blink effect using Cocoa? In 
>>> Carbon, it's FlashMenuBar(menuID) but I don't see a Cocoa 
>>> equivalent.

>>
>> NSMenuView's -performActionWithHighlightingForItemAtIndex:?
>>
>> (Never used it, just looked it up...)

> This is at the top of the file:
>
>  Note: NSMenuView is deprecated and is no longer used to draw 
> menus. Calling its methods will not affect the appearance of your 
> menus.
>
> I don't think this will work.  Actually I don't think there is even 
> a way to get a valid NSMenuView* at all.


Ah, I didn't even look at the top of that file!  I figured it would 
likely be a perform... method, like NSButton's performClick:.  Sorry 
for opening the rabbit hole...