I just need to present a contextual menu from my custom view toolbar item, but 
NSToolbarView is not passing the right mouse events down, so -menuForEvent: is 
never called.

On 2011-08-25, at 4:27 PM, Corbin Dunn wrote:

> ToolbarView overrides hitTest; to do some magic; that is probably the source 
> of your problem.
> 
> What are you trying to do?
> 
> corbin
> 
> On Aug 25, 2011, at 3:14 PM, Indragie Karunaratne wrote:
> 
>> Just realized something interesting, and remembered a key detail that I 
>> forgot to mention. The view in question is a custom view inside the toolbar 
>> of the window. The NSToolbar by default has a contextual menu that appears 
>> when the customizable property is set to YES. However, even though there is 
>> no menu when customizable is set to NO, I suspected that it was still 
>> trapping right mouse events. So I used a category on the private 
>> NSToolbarView class that manages the UI for NSToolbar to check whether it 
>> was receiving the events:
>> 
>> @interface NSToolbarView : NSView
>> @end
>> 
>> @interface NSToolbarView (RightMouse)
>> @end
>> 
>> @implementation NSToolbarView (RightMouse)
>> 
>> - (void)rightMouseDown:(NSEvent*)theEvent
>> {
>>   NSLog(@"right mouse");
>> }
>> 
>> @end
>> 
>> And as expected, the method is called. This leaves me wondering how the 
>> toolbar view can receive the events when my own view inside the toolbar can 
>> not (as the event would have to be forwarded up the responder chain to the 
>> toolbar in order for it to receive it). 
>> 
>> On 2011-08-25, at 1:58 PM, Ken Thomases wrote:
>> 
>>> On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 11:45 AM, Indragie Karunaratne 
>>> <cocoa...@indragie.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I have an NSView subclass that I'm trying to capture right clicks in. I 
>>>> override the rightMouseDown: method but it is never called.
>>> 
>>> Any chance you simply have a typo or misspelling in your method signature?
>>> 
>>> -Ken
>>> 
>> 
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