Re: building a menu at run-time and enabling the items

FROM : John Spicer
DATE : Fri Nov 19 19:52:12 2004

Yes, setting the target fixes this problem. Thanks to all who answered.

What really gets me is that I use this code in another place to build a 
different menu, and THOSE items are enabled.

I'm doing something wrong, I just know it.

On Nov 19, 2004, at 12:57 PM, <email_removed> wrote:

>> I'm building a menu at run-time. I add items to the menu, and each one
>> is given a selector as shown.
>>
>> The menu items won't enable. I'm not setting a target for the menu
>> item, only a selector. Is this possibly the problem?

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>  Yup thats the problem. Seems silly, but you do have to set the target.
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>> The code I'm using is shown below:
>>
>>     NSMenu *theMenuBar = [NSApp mainMenu];
>>     NSMenuItem *theView = [theMenuBar itemWithTitle:@"MyMenu"];
>>     NSMenu *myMenu = [theView submenu];
>>
>>     for (int i = 0; i< [inData count]; i++)
>>     {
>>         NSDictionary *d = [inData objectAtIndex:i];
>>         NSMenuItem *item = [[NSMenuItem alloc] initWithTitle:[d
>> objectForKey:@"Name"] action:@selector(somethingWasChoosen:)
>> keyEquivalent:@""];
>>         [item setTag:[[d objectForKey:@"Code"] intValue]];
>>         [myMenu addItem:item];
>>     }
>>
>>
>> and later somethingWasChoosen is defined as:
>>
>> - (IBAction) somethingWasChoosen:(id)sender
>> {
>> }
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