inline menus not showing in ventura mac catalyst

Question

My Mac Catalyst app is built on Monterey 12.6.3 with Xcode 14.2 for minimum macOS Catalina 11.2. The Main menu is defined in the Main.storyboard and has a customized File menu with 3 inline sections. When the app runs in Catalina or Monterey the File menu looks like this:

But when the App runs on Ventura the File menu looks like this:

All of my inline menu items are missing in Ventura and I have not found any modification of the Main Menu in the storyboard which will make the missing items appear in Ventura. The Main Menu looks like this in the storyboard:

My question is: How can I modify the Storyboard definition of Main Menu so that the menus are the same in Monterey and Ventura?

I believe it is possible to build my menus with the App Delegate override buildMenuWithBuilder function, but I would like to know why the storyboard definitions no longer work across macOS Catalina to Ventura!

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 24 '23 at 17:43

Since I was unable to get an answer to this question, I decided to rebuild the menu with the App Delegate override buildMenuWithBuilder():

#if TARGET_OS_UIKITFORMAC
// Fix Issue #009 - Unusable File menu on Ventura                               //leg20230209 - MultiNotes_Catalyst_v1
//  Build File Menu from code instead of using storyboard.
- (void)buildMenuWithBuilder:(id<UIMenuBuilder>)builder
{
    [super buildMenuWithBuilder: builder];
    
    // Remove unwanted menus.
    [builder removeMenuForIdentifier:UIMenuServices];
    [builder removeMenuForIdentifier:UIMenuFormat];
    [builder removeMenuForIdentifier:UIMenuClose];
    [builder removeMenuForIdentifier:UIMenuPrint];
    [builder removeMenuForIdentifier:UIMenuFind];

    // NOOP this call when compiling on Catalina and Xcode 12.4 because
    //  macCatalyst 16.0 SDK not available.
#if BUILDING_ON_MONTEREY
    if (@available(macCatalyst 16.0, *)) {
        [builder removeMenuForIdentifier:UIMenuDocument];
    }
#endif
    
    // Build inline "New" menu section.
    UIKeyCommand* newNoteCommand = [UIKeyCommand keyCommandWithInput:@"N" modifierFlags:UIKeyModifierCommand action:@selector(newNoteMenuCMD:)];
    newNoteCommand.title = @"New Note";
    newNoteCommand.discoverabilityTitle = @"Create a new Note in selected Group";

    UIKeyCommand* newGroupCommand = [UIKeyCommand keyCommandWithInput:@"G" modifierFlags:UIKeyModifierCommand+UIKeyModifierShift action:@selector(newGroup)];
    newGroupCommand.title = @"New Group";
    newGroupCommand.discoverabilityTitle = @"Create a new Group in selected Group";

    UIKeyCommand* deleteNoteOrGroupCommand = [UIKeyCommand keyCommandWithInput:@"\b" modifierFlags:UIKeyModifierCommand action:@selector(deleteNoteOrGroup:)];
    deleteNoteOrGroupCommand.title = @"Delete Note or Group";
    deleteNoteOrGroupCommand.discoverabilityTitle = @"Delete selected Note or Group";

    UIKeyCommand* duplicateNoteCommand = [UIKeyCommand keyCommandWithInput:@"R" modifierFlags:UIKeyModifierCommand action:@selector(duplicateNote:)];
    duplicateNoteCommand.title = @"Duplicate Note";
    duplicateNoteCommand.discoverabilityTitle = @"Duplicate selected Note";

    UIMenu* newMenu = [UIMenu menuWithTitle:@"" image:nil identifier:@"com.tropic4.multinotes.newmenu" options: UIMenuOptionsDisplayInline children: @[newNoteCommand, newGroupCommand, deleteNoteOrGroupCommand, duplicateNoteCommand]];
    [builder insertChildMenu: newMenu atStartOfMenuForIdentifier: UIMenuFile];

    
    // Build inline "Import" menu section.
    UIKeyCommand* importNotesCommand = [UIKeyCommand keyCommandWithInput:@"" modifierFlags:0 action:@selector(importNotes:)];
    importNotesCommand.title = @"Import Notes…";
    importNotesCommand.discoverabilityTitle = @"Import selected .txt, .html, and .rtf note files from selected folder";     //leg20230220 - MultiNotes_Catalyst_v1

    UIKeyCommand* exportNoteAsHTMLCommand = [UIKeyCommand keyCommandWithInput:@"E" modifierFlags:UIKeyModifierCommand action:@selector(exportNoteAsHTML:)];
    exportNoteAsHTMLCommand.title = @"Export Note As HTML…";
    exportNoteAsHTMLCommand.discoverabilityTitle = @"Export Note as an HTML file";

    UIKeyCommand* exportNoteAsRTFCommand = [UIKeyCommand keyCommandWithInput:@"E" modifierFlags:UIKeyModifierCommand+UIKeyModifierShift action:@selector(exportNoteAsRTF:)];
    exportNoteAsRTFCommand.title = @"Export Note As RTF…";
    exportNoteAsRTFCommand.discoverabilityTitle = @"Export Note as an RTF file";

    UIMenu* importMenu = [UIMenu menuWithTitle:@"" image:nil identifier:@"com.tropic4.multinotes.importmenu" options: UIMenuOptionsDisplayInline children: @[importNotesCommand, exportNoteAsHTMLCommand, exportNoteAsRTFCommand]];
    [builder insertChildMenu: importMenu atEndOfMenuForIdentifier: UIMenuFile ];

    
    // Build inline "Print" menu section.
    UIKeyCommand* printNoteCommand = [UIKeyCommand keyCommandWithInput:@"P" modifierFlags:UIKeyModifierCommand action:@selector(printNote:)];
    printNoteCommand.title = @"Print…";
    printNoteCommand.discoverabilityTitle = @"Print selected Note";
    
    UIMenu* printMenu = [UIMenu menuWithTitle:@"" image:nil identifier:@"com.tropic4.multinotes.printmenu" options: UIMenuOptionsDisplayInline children: @[printNoteCommand]];
    [builder insertChildMenu: printMenu atEndOfMenuForIdentifier: UIMenuFile ];
}

inline menus not showing in ventura mac catalyst

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