On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 6:40 PM, Glenn L. Austin gl...@austin-soft.comwrote:
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Also, just because you're using an image for the menu item doesn't mean that
you can't set the title of the item.
Yes - I can set the title of item with an image, but I don't need
duplicated title which is
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 6:04 PM, Glenn L. Austin gl...@austin-soft.comwrote:
Having worked on that code at one time, they are doing *exactly* what I
outlined -- they are pre-creating item images (image with mask) and putting
plain text titles in the menu item and drawing the images with the
OK. Answering by myself - to avoid title duplication it is possible by
setting small-invisible attributed title.
Rimas M.
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 9:47 AM, Rimas M. apple.list...@gmail.com wrote:
Going to try masked image way right now. As for plain text title, I am
confused, because if I do
On Sep 5, 2011, at 11:44 PM, Rimas M. wrote:
On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 6:40 PM, Glenn L. Austin gl...@austin-soft.com
wrote:
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Also, just because you're using an image for the menu item doesn't mean that
you can't set the title of the item.
Yes - I can set the title of item with
M.. Actually not. I am using setImage: of NSMenuItem to keep default
highlighted item selection drawing and large menu scrolling with
scroll-wheel.
Rimas M.
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 4:40 PM, Glenn L. Austin gl...@austin-soft.comwrote:
Yes, you will need to set the item's title, unless
On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 7:13 PM, Jens Alfke j...@mooseyard.com wrote:
On Aug 28, 2011, at 11:25 PM, Rimas M. wrote:
Well.. that worked. Generally. But those images must have transparent
background. And as I have discovered, when dealing with text drawing, that
causes loose of sub-pixels
On Aug 31, 2011, at 2:19 AM, Rimas M. wrote:
On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 7:13 PM, Jens Alfke j...@mooseyard.com wrote:
On Aug 28, 2011, at 11:25 PM, Rimas M. wrote:
Well.. that worked. Generally. But those images must have transparent
background. And as I have discovered, when dealing with
On Aug 31, 2011, at 2:19 AM, Rimas M. wrote:
Not really. Unless I am missing something. Menu-item's background is changing
when item is selected (blue one, by default).
C’mon, be creative. Cache two copies of the image, one with the plain
background and one with the highlighted.
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 10:05 AM, Jens Alfke j...@mooseyard.com wrote:
On Aug 31, 2011, at 2:19 AM, Rimas M. wrote:
Not really. Unless I am missing something. Menu-item's background is
changing when item is selected (blue one, by default).
C’mon, be creative. Cache two copies of the image,
Well.. that worked. Generally. But those images must have transparent
background. And as I have discovered, when dealing with text drawing, that
causes loose of sub-pixels antialiasing. This is unacceptable. Will need to
use NSAttributedString+attributedTitle way... Any hints on speeding up menu
If you use text drawing, your first click will be slow. That's the penalty of
loading each font.
That's why -- at least internally -- the menu code caches the image of each
item, so that the second and subsequent displays of the menu will be quick.
You really have two solutions -- pre-image
On Aug 28, 2011, at 11:25 PM, Rimas M. wrote:
Well.. that worked. Generally. But those images must have transparent
background. And as I have discovered, when dealing with text drawing, that
causes loose of sub-pixels antialiasing. This is unacceptable. Will need to
use
Drawing item titles into image and caching them for later use works nice.
But I have noticed unacceptable side effect. Normally, when menu is
displayed you can press any letter key, and menu will scroll to the first
item, which title starts with that letter. In my case , NSMenuItems does not
have
Hi Glenn,
Thank you for answering. Now I can understand why menu item title is black
in fonts popup of iWork apps. Even if they are selected.
Regards,
RImas M.
On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 6:13 PM, Glenn L. Austin gl...@austin-soft.comwrote:
Yes -- don't do that!!!
You are asking the system to
Hello list,
I am trying to do quite simple thing - add a popup with all fonts, available
on system. Each item of menu, should be displayed in corresponding font. As
an example could be all iWork apps. When you dealing with text, you have a
popup with fonts, and each font name is displayed with
On Aug 2, 2011, at 6:42 AM, Rimas M. wrote:
Hello list,
I am trying to do quite simple thing - add a popup with all fonts, available
on system. Each item of menu, should be displayed in corresponding font. As
an example could be all iWork apps. When you dealing with text, you have a
popup
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