Re: highlighting menus in the menu bar on Leopard

FROM : Martin Wierschin
DATE : Tue Nov 06 03:36:38 2007

Replying to myself for the sake of the list archives...

> Does anyone know any other way to accomplish this highlighting?


The undocumented Objective-C methods on NSMenu and NSMenuItem were a 
dead end, but these undocumented functions ended up doing the trick:

   _NSHighlightCarbonMenu( NSMenu* menu );
   _NSUnhighlightCarbonMenu( NSMenu* menu );

Although perhaps the best would be to set a unique temporary menu 
equivalent for the item you want to activate and use NSMenu's 
"performKeyEquivalent:", which should do the highlighting for you.

~Martin