Thank you Mr. Cox and Mr. Schlegel for your help. I'm using the nsmenuitem view to be displayed when clicking a status item (from the menu bar). Would it be better to display the view another way? Maybe in a window attached at the point of the status item?
On Jan 8, 2010, at 9:21 AM, Graham Cox wrote: > > On 08/01/2010, at 5:48 AM, Eric Schlegel wrote: > >> >> On Jan 7, 2010, at 7:16 AM, Daniel Meachum wrote: >> >>> I'm trying to use an NSPopupButton inside of a view nested in an NSMenuItem >>> (development for OS X 10.6 only). The menu is created but it refuses to >>> popup/out of the button. No Console messages are displayed or UI feedback. >>> I originally found the problem while programmatically creating the view but >>> also reproduced it in IB with the following steps: >> >> So you're trying to display the menu attached to the NSPopupButton, while >> the menu containing the NSPopupButton is open? That won't work - the Menu >> Manager doesn't support recursive display of menus. > > > Not to mention that this is a travesty of UI design. If you want a submenu of > a menu item, why not just use a - uhm, submenu? > > --Graham > > _______________________________________________ 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 arch...@mail-archive.com
