Comments on: How to make Pop-Up Menus in Custom Quartz Composer Patches

Comment on How to make Pop-Up Menus in Custom Quartz Composer Patches by: cwright

Tue, 10 Jul 2007 16:29:33 +0000

To generate menu items at runtime, you have to override QCIndexPort’s initWithNode method. it looks like this:

- (id)initWithNode:(id)fp8 arguments:(id)fp12;

Here’s some code to do just that:

- (id)initWithNode:(id)fp8 arguments:(id)fp12
{
NSMutableDictionary *config = [fp12 mutableCopy];
NSMutableDictionary *attr;
NSMutableArray *menu = [[NSMutableArray alloc] init];

[config autorelease];
[menu autorelease];

attr = [config objectForKey:@”attributes”];

[menu addObject:@”foo”];
[menu addObject:@”bar”];
[menu addObject:@”baz”];

[attr setValue:menu forKey:@”menu”];

return [super initWithNode:fp8 arguments:config];
}

Comment on How to make Pop-Up Menus in Custom Quartz Composer Patches by: cwright

Thu, 05 Jul 2007 19:18:16 +0000

Ahh, right you are. I wasn’t familiar with the Inspector window in QC :) I thought that was the Interface Builder’s Inspector guy. My Bad :)

Comment on How to make Pop-Up Menus in Custom Quartz Composer Patches by: smokris

Thu, 05 Jul 2007 18:58:15 +0000

cwright -

The screenshot in the top right corner *is* actually QC itself.

smokris

Comment on How to make Pop-Up Menus in Custom Quartz Composer Patches by: cwright

Thu, 05 Jul 2007 18:55:24 +0000

can you make and post a screen shot of it working within Quartz Composer itself? Holy cow I’m so excited to give this a shot this weekend :)