Re: Trouble with NSPopUpButton and hierarchical menus?

FROM : John Stiles
DATE : Thu May 01 18:40:20 2008

Yup, that was the problem. Thanks for figuring this out, Graham.
rdar://5903558    [IB3] Items in pull-down-style NSPopUpButtons enable
"hidden" for no reason


John Stiles wrote:
> Oh, is that the problem? I didn't see a Hidden checkbox. I'll look again.
> Guess it's Radar time.
>
> Graham Cox wrote:

>> I can confirm this bug, it's the same (or similar to) one I mentioned
>> a few months ago but had some trouble reproducing at the time. I
>> thought it was related to importing older IB files, but I can make it
>> happen with any.
>>
>> Create a pop-up button. Set it to "pull down" mode. The first menu
>> item is hidden, as it should be. Drag a new menu item to the menu. It
>> will cause all items except the one dragged in to be set to "hidden".
>> If you don't notice this then the items obviously don't show up at
>> runtime. You can select all and set them to visible, then go back and
>> set the first item back to hidden as a workaround.
>>
>> G.
>>
>>
>>
>> On 1 May 2008, at 10:37 am, Peter Ammon wrote:

>>>
>>> On Apr 30, 2008, at 3:58 PM, John Stiles wrote:
>>>

>>>> I've been trying to create an NSPopUpButton in IB3, in pull-down mode,
>>>> that has a submenu. It doesn't seem to work properly though. After I
>>>> drag in the "Menu >" item into the pop-up button's menu, the pop-up
>>>> seems to be irrevocably broken-it randomly neglects to display some
>>>> items, or fails to show a menu at all when clicked. Even after
>>>> removing
>>>> the submenu, oftentimes the button is left in a weird state and
>>>> needs to
>>>> be completely deleted and rebuilt in order to function normally again.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Is this a known issue? I vaguely remember that pop-up buttons
>>>> "shouldn't" have submenus, but I'm not sure that was supposed to apply
>>>> to pull-down buttons, and IB3 certainly isn't enforcing any limitation
>>>> here. All the same, the behavior is clearly broken.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I can file a radar if needed.

>>>
>>> Hi John,
>>>
>>> I'm not familiar with the problems you mention; please file a bug.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> -Peter
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