Solved.

The problem was caused by the view concerned having a menu set with setMenu:. 
With that remove it now gets mouseDown: with control held down.

Many thanks for your thoughts.


On 18 May 2014, at 01:44, Tim Hewett <[email protected]> wrote:

> As a test I have replaced the TrackView view with my own view in the 
> MenuItemView sample code mentioned previously, still creating it 
> programatically as in my own code, and it now gets mouseDown: with control 
> held down no problem.
> 
> So clearly the issue is nothing to do with how the view is created or some 
> setting in the view class hierarchy. I suspect something to do with the way 
> the app is started and its environment - it is created without any XIB as it 
> is a user agent started by launchd and has no “.app” folder hierarchy, just a 
> standalone executable which only creates a status bar menu item. It sets 
> itself up as a delegate to NSApplication in main() and starts everything in 
> applicationDidFinishLaunching:.
> 
> The MenuItemView sample code is a more conventional Cocoa app with a XIB file 
> etc. so maybe NSApplication (or other things) has different default settings.
> 
> No obviously-related setting has been discovered in NSApplication as yet and 
> things tried so far have made no difference.
> 
> 
> On 17 May 2014, at 02:46, Lee Ann Rucker <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> NSView handles rightMouseDown: differently - it calls calls menuForEvent: 
>> Documentation says in 10.7+ it should pass it up the responder chain, so you 
>> ought to get it.
>> 
>> I'd put a symbolic break on -[NSView rightMouseDown:] and see if it's being 
>> called; that might shed some light on where it's going.
>> 
>> 
>> On May 16, 2014, at 8:11 AM, Tim Hewett wrote:
>> 
>>> I have tried that too, no message for that either.
>>> 
>>> Tim.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 16 May 2014, at 14:30, Eric Shepherd <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Try implementing rightMouseDown: instead for that.
>>>> 
>>>> Eric Shepherd
>>>> 
>>>>> On May 15, 2014, at 12:39 PM, Tim Hewett <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> I have a NSMenuItem with a custom view (inheriting from NSImageView) 
>>>>> which needs to react to mouseDown: events. An NSTrackingArea has been 
>>>>> setup for the view’s frame to enable this.
>>>>> 
>>>>> When getting the events the modifierFlags are used to change behaviour, 
>>>>> but this doesn’t work when control is held down - no mouseDown: event 
>>>>> occurs at all (no problem with other modifier keys).
>>>>> 
>>>>> If mouseDown: is called with no modifier keys held down and then control 
>>>>> is pressed, this can be seen in the modifier flags when the mouseUp: 
>>>>> event occurs.
>>>>> 
>>>>> The TrackView in the MenuItemView sample code has been tested and gets 
>>>>> mouseDown: events including when control is held down, the only 
>>>>> difference seems to be that the view in that sample is defined in a XIB 
>>>>> while the problem code’s view is created programmatically. 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Is there a way that this app can get mouseDown: events when control is 
>>>>> being held down?
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