I cannot reproduce this in a test app. The behavior was changed for 10.5 - before that comboBoxWillPopUp was too late to modify anything impacting the drop down position of the combo box.
What OS are you on? If you could file a bug with a test app, that would be very helpful. -Ken Cocoa Frameworks On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 7:31 AM, Russ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have an NSComboBox whose contents (internal list) gets loaded dynamically > during the comboBoxWillPopUp notification. It is created with > setNumberOfVisibleItems:9 and setHasVerticalScroller:YES. The first time the > button is clicked, there is a removeAllItems and then the items are loaded in > (over 100 of them) but the drop-down list that appears is only a single item > tall and the scrollbar area is present, but plain gray with no scrollbar. All > the items are present --- you can click inside the dropdown and then drag up > or down to scroll through the list --- but you wouldn't know this from the > single-item-high dropdown and disabled scrollbar. If one of the items is > selected, that is the one shown in the single-line-high dropdown area. I can > read back numberOfVisibleItems and hasVerticalScroller and they are correct, > but what appears does not reflect these values. > > The SECOND time you click the button, the dropdown comes up the proper height > and the scrollbar is present and active. > > I've tried a bunch of things inside the notification routine to try to > convince it to do the right thing during the first dropdown -- calling > noteNumberOfItemsChanged, re-calling setNumberOfVisibleItems and > setHasVerticalScroller but with no effect. > > How can I convince NSComboBox to do the right thing? Thanks > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) > > Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. > Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com > > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/kenferry%40gmail.com > > This email sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
