On 2013 Jun 10, at 09:59, Kyle Sluder <k...@ksluder.com> wrote: > The same way they do the Spotlight “menu”: a borderless window that looks > like a menu.
Thank you, Kyle. That seems to be the only sensible explanation. > Sadly, I don't know if there's a way to hook into the menu manager to get the > same results in your app.\ Oh, I should have said: This is a "free-standing" menu that I pop open by using -[NSMenu popUpMenuPositioningItem:atLocation:inView:]. Not in the main menu. * * * I played with attaching my existing menu to the bottom of a borderless window, thinking I could put a search field at the top. I still want to use a *real* NSMenu, because I need other menu behavior, submenus in particular which would be a major project to re-implement. But after using it for a few minutes, I realized that, because a *real* menu is modal until dismissed, the search field would not be able to get keystrokes. What I decided to do instead is to simply add a "Search" item to the menu. I think this will be a better user experience copying Apple's current fake "Help" menu anyhow. It took me a while to figure that thing out when it was first introduced, and I think that most casual users probably still find it to be a bit of a head-scratcher when they learn (or re-remember) that it searches menu item titles. Jerry _______________________________________________ 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: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
