Thank you, I needed to know about the responder chain... The thing is well thought out.
Bruce On Jan 31, 2011, at 3:43 PM, Sherm Pendley wrote: > On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 5:25 PM, Bruce Cresanta <cresa...@me.com> wrote: >> >> I've been scouring through the docs trying to figure out how to get a >> reference to the main menu in an NSDocument based app. I need to make >> programmatic changes to the menu depending on which NSDocument is key. >> Would you please help me find a pointer to the main menu? > > What kind of changes? In general, adding and removing menu items is > discouraged in Mac apps. Disabling menu items that don't apply to the > current document and/or selection is the preferred approach, and for > that you don't need a pointer to the menu. The current document is in > the responder chain, so if it doesn't respond to a menu item's action > message, that menu item will be disabled automatically. For more > detailed control, for example to disable a menu item based on the > current selection in a document, one can write a -validateMenuItem: > method to decide whether the given menu item should be enabled or not. > > I'm not trying to give you the "HIG lecture," I'm just saying - > depending on what you want to do, there might be an easier way to do > it that doesn't actually need a pointer to the main menu. On the other > hand, there are certainly reasons to alter the main menu in other ways > that *do* require such a pointer. So, if you do need it, there's > NSApplications's mainMenu method, which you can call using the NSApp > global, as in: > > NSMenu *menu = [NSApp mainMenu]; > > sherm-- > > -- > Cocoa programming in Perl: > http://camelbones.sourceforge.net _______________________________________________ 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
