Re: NSMenuItem / NSMenu Problems

FROM : Jeremy
DATE : Thu Jan 10 22:50:01 2008

Thanks for your help! I am having some problems with both things, sadly.

Using +[NSMenuItem separatorItem] is giving me two build errors: wrong 
type argument to unary plus...

Also, the program stalls when opening. Here's the code where this is 
being used:

// iTunes Controls
+[NSMenuItem separatorItem];
seven = [menu addItemWithTitle:@"iTunes Controls" action:nil 
keyEquivalent:@""];
[menu setSubmenu:subMenu forItem:seven];
sOne = [subMenu addItemWithTitle:@"Next Song" 
action:@selector(skipTrack:) keyEquivalent:@""];
[sOne setTarget:self];
sTwo = [subMenu addItemWithTitle:@"Previous Song" 
action:@selector(backTrack:) keyEquivalent:@""];
sThree = [subMenu addItemWithTitle:@"Beginning of Current Song" 
action:@selector(beginning:) keyEquivalent:@""];
sFour = [subMenu addItemWithTitle:@"Play/Pause Current Song" 
action:@selector(playPause:) keyEquivalent:@""];
sFive = [subMenu addItemWithTitle:@"Quit iTunes" 
action:@selector(quitItunes:) keyEquivalent:@""];

Thanks for the help!


On Jan 9, 2008, at 7:27 PM, John Stiles wrote:

> For the first, use +[NSMenuItem separatorItem].
>
> For the second, make a method inside your class. e.g.:
>
> -(void) doMyThing:(id)sender {
>  // whatever
> }
>
> And then use action:@selector(doMyThing:) to hook it up. You'll also 
> need to use setTarget: and point it at your class.
>
>
>
> Jeremy wrote:

>> I have been programming in Cocoa for not a long time. It really 
>> isn't doing the best... for me right now. Here is my NSMenu problems:
>>
>> Within my application, Tune-A-Holic, up until now I have been using 
>> it only to retrieve the information from iTunes and display it. The 
>> only function I have used is updateData: which was called within an 
>> NSDistributedNotifications call. My menu problems lie within 
>> expanding the application to have the ability to control iTunes 
>> from the menu.
>>
>> My first problem lies within separation. I would like to separate 
>> any control items and non-information items from the information 
>> that is displayed at the beginning of the drop down. The look I 
>> want can be found within the Apple menu between Mac OS X Software 
>> and System Preferences. I have found no reference to a function to 
>> do this within NSMenu.
>>
>> My second problem lies within the fact that I want to control 
>> iTunes. It is another adventure within Scripting Bridge that I want 
>> to mess with. Here is the problem I am having:
>>
>> sOne = [subMenu addItemWithTitle:@"Item" action:nil 
>> keyEquivalent:@""];
>>
>> I can't figure out how to use the action: part of this line. The 
>> NSMenu class reference mentions that this must be a selector, so I 
>> used @selector() but that doesn't seem to work.
>>
>> Any help on either issue would be greatly appreciated.
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