I am trying to get my application menu (About/Preferences/Services/Hide/Quit)
set up. My app has no need for NIBs, aside from that I've been told that one is
required to set up the application menu due to some indeterminate Cocoa
hard-wiring. I'm correspondingly clueless about IB and happy to stay that way
as much as possible, no value added.
I opened Interface builder and selected the Main Menu template. I edited the
menu a tiny bit to set up the name of my app in a few spots instead of
NewApplication. The file contains a File's Owner, First Responder, Application,
and Main Menu items. I saved it out as mainmenu.xib and have set it up in my
project as the main nib (selected my app's target, set my file as the main nib
on its properties). I can see the XIB file getting compiled with my project in
the build output.
When my app starts, at the place I'd like to set the main menu up (before the
run loop starts, during my app's initialization), [NSApp mainMenu] is nil, so
it hasn't been read yet. If I hand it my app's menu (File/Edit/etc), when the
app starts I see my menu, but not the application menu About/Preferences/etc. I
can understand that----assuming the NIB gets read at some later time---in
[NSApp run]???
I commented out my line that does [NSApp setMainMenu:mine] --- now, once the
app starts, there is only my application's name on the menu bar, with no sign
of the menu from my NIB. So my nib's menu didn't load at all. What sort of
magic incantation do I need to get that to happen?
If I can get the mainmenu NIB to load, I'm expecting to use NSApp mainMenu and
setMainMenu to hack it up to patch in my application menu. All of this is
really a bother though, I don't see any intrinsic reason why this should be
required. I could easily supply the application menu myself.
Save yourself the typing on the "I should be building everything in Interface
Builder" speech, thanks. Not happening. App works nicely without, sans app menu.
Thanks.
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