Re: NSPopUpButton

[Fred Kiefer]

Hi Georg,

Georg Fleischmann wrote:
> > I would not consider NSPopUpButton that stable myself. As the
> > specification is not telling which object should be sending the action
> > method of a menu entry, this code might be wrong. Someone should do some
> > testing on different platforms to determine the expected behaviour.
> 
> I did some tests on OpenStep, and I think the results are quite interesting:
> 
> If the action is set to NSPopUpButton [popUpButton
> setAction:@selector(action:)], then NSPopUpButton is the sender of the action.
> 
> If the action is set to NSMenuItem(s) [menuItem setAction:@selector(action:)],
> then NSMatrix (!) is the sender of the action.
> 
> If both (NSPopUpButton and NSMenuItem) have an action set, then NSMenuItem has
> priority (resulting in a sender of NSMatrix for this menu item).

thank you very much. I never could have guessed this behaviour. Just now
I tried to implement it exactly as you did describe it. Could you please
test if the current implementation in CVS is the same as on OpenStep?

Fred