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OS X API : A class that defines an object that manages an application’s menus

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Respond to Open Recent clicks in NSMenu

I am trying to respond to a user clicking an item in the Open Recent menu in my non-document based Cocoa app. I can handle File->Open by attaching it to an IBAction in IB. However, I cannot figure out how to handle when a user clicks something from…
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Updating an NSmenu from an asynchronous NSURLConnection

I am writing a little systray application that fetches data from an API and updates its menu accordingly, and am having trouble with updating the menu while it's open. I don't even know where to start, so let's start with the beginning. I have a…
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Main Thread Runloop gets blocked on opening nsmenu

I have an application for which the UI element includes an NSStatusItem and a menu. Inside my application , I am using NSTask asynchronously to perform some operation and I am using the output obtained using the …
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NSView custom context menu and keys

i have an NSCollectionView in my application's main window that manages a collection of custom NSView items. Each custom view has a context menu assigned to it. I want to add shortcut keys to some of the items, for example to associate a "delete"…
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When to remove dynamic NSMenuItem's from an NSMenu

I have an NSMenu which contains a number of dynamic items. These items are created in NSMenuDelegate's menuNeedsUpdate method and are each assigned a representedObject. I'm looking to trim the object graph and hopefully regain a bit of memory when…
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How to create an NSMenu containing an NSMenuItem which only appears while holding a keyboard modifier key?

I'd like to create an NSMenu containing an NSMenuItem which is hidden by default, and only appears while the user is holding a keyboard modifier key. Basically, I'm looking for the same behaviour as the 'Library' option in the Finder's 'Go'…
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How do I adjust the size of an NSMenu to its content dynamically?

I have a standard NSMenu like this This menu was created with this code: NSMenu *menu = [[NSMenu alloc] init]; NSMenuItem *addMenuItem = [[NSMenuItem alloc] init]; [addMenuItem setTitle:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"Upload"]]; [addMenuItem…
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Toggle NSStatusItem's Menu Open/Closed Using Hot Key - Code Execution Queued/Blocked

I'm editing this question because I think I may have oversimplified the way in which my status item's menu opens. It's ridiculously complicated for such a simple function! My status item supports both left and right click actions. The user can…
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Swift - detect is NSStatusItem hidden

I'm working on MacOS menu bar app which can have variable length: @IBOutlet weak var statusMenu: NSMenu! let statusItem: NSStatusItem = NSStatusBar.system.statusItem(withLength: NSStatusItem.variableLength) statusItem.title = "Long…
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How to get rid of Enter Full Screen menu item?

In my Mac OS X app I deleted all default menu items, added my own. But in View menu at the bottom I can still see Enter Full Screen menu item, whilst in storyboard there is no such menu item. I've tried to delete the entire View menu, but now it…
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How To Detect Which NSMenuItem Was Selected

Given that I have a menuBar app with 3 items on a subMenu: let delaySubMenu = NSMenu() delaySubMenu.addItem(NSMenuItem(title: "5", action: #selector( setReminder(_:)), keyEquivalent: "")) delaySubMenu.addItem(NSMenuItem(title: "10", action:…
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How can you specify which NSMenu is the main menu in a XIB file?

Long time iOS developer who's dipping his toes in the macOS world. Just trying to better understand how Mac apps work. For non-storyboard applications based on a XIB, the template creates a default xib and inside is the application's main…
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NSMenuItem key equivalent isn't setting

I have set menu item key equivalent to cmd- . But when I am running the application its not there.
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How to display search bar in NSMenuItem

I'm building a MenuBar Swift Cocoa application that displays a list of user's github repositories. After clicking on one, it opens a new browser window with the repository on github.com. I am successfully loading the list of repos and rendering them…
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Weird behavior of Finder Sync Extension's tool bar item menu

I am building a macOS app with Finder Sync Extension, which adds a tool bar item to the Finder. I created the tool bar item menu like this: - (NSMenu *)menuForMenuKind:(FIMenuKind)whichMenu { NSMenu *menu = [NSMenu new]; NSURL *URL = ...//…
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