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Re: Menu Item Bindings Problem
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Re: Menu Item Bindings Problem


  • Subject: Re: Menu Item Bindings Problem
  • From: Matt Neuburg <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 15:56:52 -0800
  • Thread-topic: Menu Item Bindings Problem

On Sat, 25 Feb 2006 20:57:26 -0600, Chris Outwin <email@hidden> said:
>I am having trouble changing a menu item from IBAction to Bindings.
>The purpose of the menu item is to show/hide a NSPanel.  The menu
>item should change its title accordingly.  My bindings code correctly
>displays the initial menu item title, but the menu item is grayed-out.
>
>Apple's Enabling Menu Items docs says, "NSMenu searches the
>appropriate objects to find one that responds to the menu item‚s
>action method. If it can‚t find such an object, it disables the menu
>item."  My object doesn't have an IBAction method, since I'm using
>bindings.

An NSMenuItem doesn't have target/argument bindings, so you're still going
to have to give it a target and an action. You can then enable the menu item
by binding its Enabled to something in that target, if you don't want to use
validateMenuItem. m.

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