On May 19, 2008, at 7:08 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Any object's validateMenuItem method is only called for menu items that
would  message  that object if they were invoked. That means:
* Menu items whose target directly points to that object
* Menu items whose target is "first responder", and your object is on
the responder chain and implements the item's action method.

Maybe you should tell us which command(s) aren't being validated that you think should be?
I'm trying to validate the Edit menu. I added a custom view to the window in IB as shown in chapter 7 of Learning Cocoa With Objective-C, 2nd Edition O'Reilly and made it the first responder. To the view initialization method I added this:

[[self window] makeFirstResponder:self];

I'm returning YES to acceptsFirstResponder and becomeFirstResponder.
So I would think I would get validateMenuItem messages for the view
but its not being called.


Re-read the documentation about the responder chain
I read the chapters on Automatic Menu Enablingand The Responder Chain.
Not sure what I'm missing.

So does your custom view implement the action method(s) for the item(s) on the Edit menu which you are trying to validate (e.g., - cut:, -:copy, etc)? If not, your custom view's validateMenuItem method won't be called for those items.



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