On Aug 9, 2010, at 5:37 PM, Tony Romano wrote: [...] > > > Looking at the documentation for NSToolbarItem setAction:, it has a little > note: "For a custom view item, this method calls setAction: on the view if it > responds.". Which I infer to mean, that the basic Custom View should work. > What really interesting is NSToolbarItem is derived from NSObject(which is a > whole other discussion on this design), so the setAction and setTarget need > to get stored somewhere, there are no apparent private variables to store > these items. Looking at the toolbar item in the debugger, the object knows > that the view doesn't support set/get action because they set some bits on > creation and look at the bit setting instead of calling respondsToSelector > every time. > > Anyone have any ideas as to why I can't use a custom view derived from NSView?
You can set any custom view you want. However, NSToolbarItem delegates its target/action entirely to its view, and has no storage for these properties. If your view does not implement -target or -action, then the toolbar item's target and action will both be NULL. Hope this helps, -Peter _______________________________________________ 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
