Re: Carbon menus in Cocoa app
Re: Carbon menus in Cocoa app
- Subject: Re: Carbon menus in Cocoa app
- From: Eric Schlegel <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 01 Dec 2009 10:38:57 -0800
On Nov 30, 2009, at 5:03 AM, Vikram Sethi wrote:
> Though the menu bar appears and the individual menu items get created and
> get added to the hierarchy (verified it while debugging), the menus do not
> open when I click on the menu bar. The menus are also Carbon based. They are
> defined as a ‘MBAR’ resource and the menu bar gets created using the
> GetNewMBar() API. This API has been marked ‘Not recommended’ though it is
> not deprecated. Documentation says use NIB files instead.
>
> I tried similar changes in another Carbon based app. This app opened fine
> and I was able to access the menus also. Unlike my app, this ref app defines
> the menus in a NIB file and creates the menu bar using the NIB file.
I would not actually expect that there would be any difference in the behavior of the two applications based solely on how the menus are created. Regardless of whether you create your menus from an 'MBAR' or from a nib, once the menus are created, they should behave the same at runtime. It sounds to me that there is some other difference in the event-handling process of the two applications, which probably could be fixed in your real application without needing to move to nib files.
Can you send me copies of both the working and non-working applications and I'll see what the difference is?
-eric
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