Re: Setting image one pulldown popup button

On or about 12/7/09 5:19 AM, thus spake "Christiaan Hofman"
<[email protected]>:

> However, the sample code does not have a popup like I have, without border and
> only an image. That still does not work.

Well, as I said, it works for me. I made a project containing this code.
This is the project's ONLY code. And I see the image and no border:

- (void)applicationDidFinishLaunching:(NSNotification *)aNotification {
    NSPopUpButton* overflowButton = [[NSPopUpButton alloc]
initWithFrame:NSMakeRect(20.0, 80.0, 100.0, 42.0) pullsDown:YES];
    [overflowButton setBordered:NO];
    [[overflowButton cell] setArrowPosition:NSPopUpNoArrow];
    [[overflowButton cell] setAltersStateOfSelectedItem:NO];
    [[overflowButton cell] setBackgroundStyle:NSBackgroundStyleRaised];
    [overflowButton addItemWithTitle:@""];
    [[overflowButton itemAtIndex:0] setImage:[NSImage
imageNamed:@"mailTypeASCII.tiff"]];
    [[window contentView] addSubview:overflowButton];
}

That is effectively YOUR code, except that I made sure the image is properly
referenced, and I made the button rect large enough to see the image. I got
the image from Apple's example.

Plus I later added a few more addItemWithTitle lines, and the button does
definitely work as a popup button with a menu.

Just so you can see I'm not cheating in some way, here is the code you claim
to be using, for comparison with mine:

>> overflowButton = [[NSPopUpButton alloc] initWithFrame:NSMakeRect(0, 0, 17,
10) pullsDown:YES];
>> [overflowButton setBordered:NO];
>> [[overflowButton cell] setArrowPosition:NSPopUpNoArrow];
>> [[overflowButton cell] setAltersStateOfSelectedItem:NO];
>> [[overflowButton cell] setBackgroundStyle:NSBackgroundStyleRaised];
>> [overflowButton addItemWithTitle:@""];
>> [[overflowButton itemAtIndex:0] setImage:[NSImage imageNamed:@"Overflow"]];

I merely copied it into a new project and made the small changes you can see
above. m.

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