Re: Menu Proposal

[Christopher Armstrong]

Fred Kiefer wrote:
> I like the original idea, although I currently don't see to much benefit
> from it. Perhaps we should have the interface for the new implementation
> first, before we get any new code.
>   
I do wish to devise some sort of protocol before I carry out any work. 
This was meant as a sort of discussion around the issue of different 
menuing paridigms, and a solution which I think is feasible and doesn't 
encourage too much breakage. I feel it is necessary as what we current 
have doesn't allow other menuing paridigms to be implemented as easily, 
such as those that place a copy of each menu in each document window. 
Multiple menu views or a menu view in a document window (as opposed to 
in NSMenuPanel) isn't supported by what we currently have. I admit that 
I'm not sure how flexible this proposal should be in terms of how much 
it allows an application writer to change the appearance of their menus.

> As for the second mail on NSPopUpButton I totally seem to miss the point
> here. What is the problem here? I have been involved in the development
> of NSPopUpButtonCell, so I may be blind to the fact that the code here
> is "hodge podge".
>   
There is some dependency on NSMenuView for NSPopUpButtons, but it is not 
to the extent as suggested by the second email on this topic. It is not 
my intention to completely discard NSMenuView, in fact, I would be 
looking to reuse it as much as possible. I think we have a pretty clear 
separation between NSMenu and NSMenuView as it is, but I was hoping to 
extend it a little further in order to be more flexible.

Cheers
Chris