It sounds like you're accessing the variable directly, which doesn't allow the KVO system to send the appropriate notifications in order to notify the menu item that there was a change. If you want to set the value of the variable and expect the menu item to respond, you must make sure the appropriate KVO notifications are being sent. This can be done in several ways - through generated accessors (properties) or sending the willChangeValueForKey/didChangeValueForKey messages manually.
Try reading up on KVC: http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/KeyValueCoding/Concepts/BasicPrinciples.html and KVO: http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/KeyValueObserving/Concepts/Overview.html (KVO/KVC are the technologies that the bindings system relies on.) ... and could you post the relevant code? David _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
