How to detect right and left click in cocoa

Question

I want to create a action on right and left click of mouse. Click may be on NSTableViewCell, NSView, etc (Like when we right click on window it gives a pop-up ) . Is there any API to do such task? If no, any other way . Thank you in advance for helping me.

Answer 1

You have to override NSResponder methods like:

- (void) mouseDown: (NSEvent*) theEvent;
- (void) rightMouseDown: (NSEvent*) theEvent;

Reference: NSResponder Documentation.

Update: as mentioned below, NSView and NSTableView inherits these methods from NSResponder.

Answer 2

NSView and NSTableView inherits from NSResponder and NSResponder has rightMouseDown event, and other mouse events.

Some documentation related to this:

Introduction to View Programming Guide for Cocoa

Cocoa Event Handling Guide