UI challenge: icon menu

[Richard Gaskin]

While many developers have been doing this for years, the OS X HIG now 
officially sanctions using icon buttons as pull-down menus within a 
window -- you can see this in action with the Finder's Tools menu.

I can live with the look of a rectangle button over the roundRect look 
normally used by OS X for such things, but getting the behavior right 
has proven a bit of a challenge.

If I set the menutype of the button to pullDown I get the behavior but 
with no hilite, unless I set the backgroundColor of the button then it 
works well but doesn't have the native gradient appearance.

Suggestions?

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  Richard Gaskin
  Fourth World Media Corporation
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