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From: ali@polya.Stanford.EDU (Ali T. Ozer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: popup menus
Message-ID: <9331@polya.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 20 May 89 06:11:32 GMT
References: <23914@labrea.Stanford.EDU>
Sender: Ali T. Ozer <ali@polya.Stanford.EDU>
Reply-To: aozer@NeXT.com (Ali Ozer)
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In article <23914@labrea.Stanford.EDU> Dave Combs writes:
>Does anyone have any decent suggestions about how to do regular pop-up
>menus (without the hack that they have to be part of the "main" menu, and
>be accessed through the right mouse button?)  I have a large number of 
>very specific menus, so attaching all of them to the main menu is very
>inelegant.

You might want to use PopUpLists; they are used in the Page Layout panel,
in Interface Builder's project window (under Files), in Icon's compositing
mode selection, among other places. They allow you to bring up a list
of buttons (essentially a popup menu) on an event; they are usually 
tied to a button. There isn't any support for creating PopUpLists 
through Interface Builder; the best way to use them is to create a button
in IB, get a handle to it through an outlet, and use NXAttachPopUpList()
(I think that's what it's called) to attach a PopUpList to the button.

Ali Ozer, NeXT Developer Support
aozer@NeXT.com