>>> My question then is how should I access the tags in the popup menu in order 
>>> to work out which tag corresponds to the selected item in each row? 
>> 
>> If I understand your setup correctly, the most direct route is to set an 
>> action on each menu item.
> 
> Ah ok, I've revisited that and got it to work. I'd tried it before and it had 
> had no effect; I'd assumed that was something else that just didn't work with 
> tables. However I've now spotted the compile-time warning about only sending 
> actions to the table view delegate, and after fixing that it works nicely. 
> Thanks very much.
> Jonny

Actually, I'm not sure that solves my problem as easily as I thought. I'll just 
restate what I'm trying to achieve to make sure I'm being clear, and then 
explain the difficulty I'm having in making it work.

Each menu item string is a user-readable description of a signal channel, each 
is associated with a numerical channel ID. However there isn't a natural and 
obvious relationship between the index of the menu item and the channel ID. It 
seems sensible to me to have the menu item strings defined in the same place as 
the numerical IDs. I can imagine two ways of doing this:

1. Define the menu item strings in InterfaceBuilder as menu items, and give 
each one a tag representing the channel ID. This is what I have been trying to 
do, but I can't work out how my code should identify the tag associated with 
the menu item index (which is what I get in my NSArray representing the current 
state of the table). I can put an action on the menu item, but at the time that 
is called I don't know which row's menu has just been selected. Also (rather 
unexpectedly), putting an action on the menu item seems to prevent the 
"selected index" binding of the popup cell from being updated.

2. Define the menu item strings and associated channel IDs in my code, and use 
bindings to populate the menu items. I did try that, but haven't managed to get 
my strings showing up in the menu. Can anyone recommend clear instructions for 
making that work? I think I maybe don't properly understand the difference 
between content values and content, and what exactly they need to be bound to...

Any thoughts about how to make either of these work?

Cheers
Jonny
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