How to change colour of text in NSPopup button

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#1

hi all

I have a pop up button that is populated with numbers on awake from nib, some of the
numbers in the drop box I would like to change colour from black to blue, is this at all possible?,
if so how would it be done please.

Xcode 4.6.3
OSX 10.9.1

property MAteeth : missing value --drop box

on awakeFromNib()
	set listOfLabelItems to {"32", "33", "34", "35", "36", "37", "38", "39", "40", "41", "42", "43", "44", "45", "46", "47", "48", "49", "50", "51", "52", "53", "54", "55", "56", "57", "58", "59", "60", "61", "62", "63", "64", "65", "66", "67", "68", "69", "70", "71", "72", "73", "74", "75", "76", "77", "78", "79", "80", "81", "82", "83", "84", "85", "86", "87", "88", "89", "90", "91", "92", "93", "94", "95", "96", "97", "98", "99", "100"}
	try
		MAteeth's removeAllItems()
	end try
	MAteeth's addItemsWithTitles:listOfLabelItems
end awakeFromNib

cheers

#2

Hi,

it’s a bit tricky.
The title of a menu item can be set also with an attributed string, but there is no method addItemWithAttributedTitle
So you have to add the item normally, get the reference back (it’s always the last item), build the attributed string and set the title.

This is an example to make all numbers blue which can be divided by 4


set listOfLabelItems to {"32", "33", "34", "35", "36", "37", "38", "39", "40", "41", "42", "43", "44", "45", "46", "47", "48", "49", "50", "51", "52", "53", "54", "55", "56", "57", "58", "59", "60", "61", "62", "63", "64", "65", "66", "67", "68", "69", "70", "71", "72", "73", "74", "75", "76", "77", "78", "79", "80", "81", "82", "83", "84", "85", "86", "87", "88", "89", "90", "91", "92", "93", "94", "95", "96", "97", "98", "99", "100"}

if (MAteeth's numberOfItems() as integer) > 0 then MAteeth's removeAllItems()

repeat with i from 1 to (count listOfLabelItems)
	set menuItemValue to item i of listOfLabelItems
	MAteeth's addItemWithTitle_(menuItemValue)
	if (menuItemValue as integer) mod 4 = 0 then
		set currentMenuItem to MAteeth's lastItem()
		set stringAttributes to current application's NSDictionary's dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys_(current application's NSColor's blueColor(), current application's NSForegroundColorAttributeName, current application's NSFont's systemFontOfSize:13, current application's NSFontAttributeName, missing value)
		set attributedString to (current application's NSAttributedString's alloc()'s initWithString:menuItemValue attributes:stringAttributes)
		currentMenuItem's setAttributedTitle_(attributedString)
	end if
end repeat
#3

Hi Stefan

a bit tricky :smiley: wow, never ever would have got this, not with my limited understanding any way.

thank you for the sample code, does what you say it does, how can I change it to have only specific numbers highlighted in blue, i.e. 77, 89, 93,119 not just numbers that are divisible?

#4 
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 if menuItemValue is in {"77", "89", "93", "119"} then
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#5

thank you Stefan, smack on the money :smiley: