NSMenuItem's NSView not highlighting in submenu

Question

I have an NSStatusItem that displays an NSMenu full of NSView subclasses. I override drawRect: in my NSView subclass to implement highlighting in the NSMenu and everything works fine in the root menu, but for some reason it doesn't work in submenus of the root menu. I put some NSLog statements in my NSView subclasses drawRect: and noticed that it's not even being called for the views in the submenu. Any ideas?

I can post the code that I'm using to highlight the views, but I don't think that its necessary since drawRect: is not even being called. Let me know if there's any other code you need to see that might help.

Yes `mouseDown:` is still called when I click on the NSView's in the submenu, but `drawRect:` isn't being called. — edc1591, Jun 24 '11 at 04:48

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 27 '11 at 02:16

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Could you use NSMenuItem's setEnabled method to sort of jog the submenuItems awake?

answered Jun 27 '11 at 02:16

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Just tried that. `drawRect:` is still not being called for the items in the submenu. – edc1591 Jun 28 '11 at 20:44

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 08 '11 at 02:59

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The problem seems to have resolved itself. I might have just forgot to set the view to use my NSView subclass.

answered Nov 08 '11 at 02:59

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NSMenuItem's NSView not highlighting in submenu

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