An advantage that MacApp had over Cocoa was that you got the source code. My experience of MacApp was that it was far more buggy but having the code meant that you could see how things work and (of course) fix bugs. Cocoa seems rather bug free - but when you find a bug you have no option but to work around it. I am not pining for the days of MacApp, things move on, Cocoa is very, very good - but I do miss the source.
My current issue is contextual menus. I am using performClickWithFrame to popup the menu - however as the Timeline is quite small I don't want the distraction of a normal size menu - it looks odd and out of place. The solution that I have is to use setAttributedTitle to set the menu items to a small, and comfortable, size. This all works just fine:
The rub come when you have a contextual menu with just one item. It can happen - contextual menus are contextual - they only show items that can be invoked - items that can't (would be disabled in normal menus) are simply omitted. This can leave you with a contextual menu with just one item. Unfortunately it looks like this:
Hello Señor Calviño - yep it is bald as an egg - not even a hint of text. If instead of setAttributedTitle I use setTitle it looks fine (but big).
This seems to be an either/or decision - big or bad. The workaround I had for this good/bad/ugly place was to give the popup a header label. The resulting menu looks like this.
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