[Jan Van Boghout]

How do I do this ? Basically , what I want to make is a pulldown menu , only instead of the white part and blue arrow part I would like to have a custom image.
Can I do this by setting something in IB or do i have to program it ? I don't have a problem with making an artificial pulldown, it doesn't have to be a standard control.

[Rickster]

By "pulldown menu" do you mean something similar to an NSPopUpButton of the PullDown style? That's pretty easy to fake a custom version of... create a subclass of NSView (or NSControl or NSButton or NSPopUpButton, depending on how much functionality you want to inherit), and on -mouseDown: display a new window (created with NSBorderlessWindowMask) on top of the button.

If by "pulldown menu" you mean one that pulls down from the menu bar, I'm not sure that's as easily possible, if it's possible at all.

[Jan Van Boghout]

Originally posted by Rickster:
<STRONG>By "pulldown menu" do you mean something similar to an NSPopUpButton of the PullDown style? That's pretty easy to fake a custom version of... create a subclass of NSView (or NSControl or NSButton or NSPopUpButton, depending on how much functionality you want to inherit), and on -mouseDown: display a new window (created with NSBorderlessWindowMask) on top of the button.

If by "pulldown menu" you mean one that pulls down from the menu bar, I'm not sure that's as easily possible, if it's possible at all.</STRONG>

Yeah , I mean the popup button type. Thanks for the reply , but I found a very simple way to cheat my way into a custom version . I guess your way is better , but the way I do it requires a minimum of messing around with code : make an ordinary popup button , scale it to a minimum size , make an ordinary button with your custom pulldown look , make a performclick connection , and voila