Re: NSStatusItem custom view with menu

FROM : Andy Kim
DATE : Fri Jul 04 22:03:05 2008

Another way to do this is to implement the NSMenu delegate methods:

- menuWillOpen:
- menuDidClose:

You would then set the highlighted variable there. I think it'll make 
the code easier to read. You need to set the menu's delegate for this 
to work (obviously).

- Andy Kim

On Jul 3, 2008, at 5:46 PM, Jacob Bandes-Storch wrote:

> I'm making an NSStatusItem with a custom view. In drawRect:, it 
> draws things based on the value of the "highlighted" instance 
> variable. When mouseDown: is called, it pops up a menu using the 
> status item's popUpStatusItemMenu: method. Using the mouseUp: event 
> does not work, because it is not called after the menu goes away. 
> This is the way I've found that makes it work:
>
> - (void)mouseDown:(NSEvent *)theEvent {
>     highlighted = YES;
>     [self setNeedsDisplay:YES];
>     [statusItem popUpStatusItemMenu:menu];
>     highlighted = NO;
>     [self setNeedsDisplay:YES];
>     [super mouseDown:theEvent];
> }
>
> Is this a good method, or is there something better that involves 
> mouseUp:?