yes i know its not a real menu, but given it mostly behaves like one, i was trying to use existing functionality without having to rewrite the menu-ing system.
thanks, augusto. On Jul 8, 2010, at 9:38 AM, Graham Cox wrote: > > On 09/07/2010, at 2:30 AM, Augusto Callejas wrote: > >> i'm trying to replicate the functionality of spotlight using an embedded >> NSSearchField inside an NSMenu. >> when a search is performed, i add NSMenuItems to the NSMenu. when you >> perform a search in spotlight, >> the first search result is highlighted and you can immediately use the >> up/down arrows to traverse the >> results. i'd like to do the same by highlighting the first result in my >> NSMenu (which is an NSMenuItem). >> since spotlight has the same behavior, then it seems like an experience a >> user is familiar with. > > > It looks to me as if Spotlight isn't a menu at all, it's just putting up a > window that looks a bit like one (not that there's much of a distinction > anyway, NSMenus are windows internally). > > Maybe just do the whole thing in a custom view? > > --Graham > > _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list ([email protected]) 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]
