Re: Hiding contextual menu items

On Mar 8, 2010, at 17:18, David Dunham wrote:

> On 8 Mar 2010, at 08:00, Christiaan Hofman wrote:
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>> I have an NSTableView with a contextual menu, that's automatically updated using the -menuNeedsUpdate: delegate method. I want to conditionally hide some items, depending on the current state. So I tried to call -setHidden on the items on the menu in my implementation of -menuNeedsUpdate:. This does not work, the menu items are all shown, no matter whether I pass YES or NO to this method. What's going on, why doesn't it respect my settings? And is there an alternative way to do this?
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> I think this is where I override menuForEvent and provide a menu with only the right items.
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Overriding menuForEvent is buggy in 10.5, as explained on the 10.6 release notes.

> Also, I think that if you're talking about standard items, you should disable them rather than hide, and that the hiding happens automatically.

I disagree that one should disable them for the case of a contextual menu, I would agree for most other types of menus. And hiding most definitely does not happen automatically, it does not even happen when explicitly done (as I was saying.)

Christiaan

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