Thanks, this is just what I was mis-understanding - I thought that an NSMenuItem was just a special case of NSMenu, but in fact an NSMenu contains NSMenuItems - which, now, seems very straightforward :o)
Hope everyone had a good xmas! Mikey On 25 Dec 2009, at 02:59, Paul Bruneau wrote: > > On Dec 24, 2009, at 4:25 AM, Michael Davey wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I have googled around but have found nothing that can help me with this... I >> have a menu in my application that I wish to add sub items to >> programatically. I have the Menu itself connected up and I can add >> NSMenuItems to it just fine, but seem at a loss to be able to add a sub menu >> and the sub itmes to that menu. >> >> I suspect my answer lies in this function: >> >> - (void)setSubmenu:(NSMenu *)aMenu forItem:(NSMenuItem *)anItem >> >> But I do not understand what the forItem part of the method is for. Further, >> I can retrieve a menu item from the menu, but am also at a loss as to how to >> retrieve my submenu at a stage in the future. I have a feeling that there >> is something very simple that I am not understanding here, and would be very >> grateful if someone could point me in the right direction. >> >> And Merry Christmas to everyone!!! > > "anItem" is a pointer to the menu item to which you wish to connect the > submenu. > > I was working on code to do this yesterday, and I saw this method, but I > preferred instead to just use the -setSubmenu method of my menu items. What > you might not be understanding is that you attach a menu to the submenu > property of a menu item. You don't add a submenu to a menu as you seem to > have put it above. > > In either case, in the future, when you want to get the submenu, you can send > the -submenu message to your menu item that has the submenu attached to it in > order to retrieve the submenu. > > If you don't know which menu item has a particular submenu that you are > interested in, you can search through them, or you could set the tag of the > menu item of interest and find the item that has that tag at some later time > using NSMenu's –itemWithTag: method. > > Definitely read the menu programming guide and and NSMenu and NSMenuItem > class descriptions and I think you'll find that menus are one of the most > straightforward parts of Cocoa to understand. _______________________________________________ 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
