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David Gomez
David Gomez

Reputation: 2772

OS X Cocoa Color Combo Box

I'm currently learning to program for OS X / iOS and I'm trying to create a Color Combo Box for my first OS X app (something like you can see in the image below) but I have no idea how to do it and can't find any help or hint in Internet.

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Can you please help me to understand which kind of object (visually speaking) I have to choose for my UI and then how to use it with an array of color values to create a session history?

Thank you!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 584

Answers (1)

Jay
Jay

Reputation: 6638

First of all, the control you're looking for is a NSPopUpButton.
(NSPopUpButton Class Reference, Application Menu and Pop-up List Programming Topics)

Depending on what you're actaully trying to achieve using NSAttributedStrings in your menu items with the background color you desire would be an option, e.g.

string = [[NSMutableAttributedString alloc] initWithString:@"MyString"
              attributes:@{NSBackgroundColorAttributeName : [NSColor brownColor]}];

Check e.g. here for details on how to work with attributed strings.

Upvotes: 2

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