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Re: [NSapp mainMenu] returns nil
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Re: [NSapp mainMenu] returns nil


  • Subject: Re: [NSapp mainMenu] returns nil
  • From: Christian Stieber <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2006 14:09:41 +0200

At 18:26 30.03.2006 +0200, you wrote:

[ Thanks for both replies, but since the first one is a aubset
  of the second... ]

Do you ever call NSApplicationMain()?

No. I'm still not doing it, but when I looked at the "docs" for that function, I saw NSApplicationLoad() just above it, which seemed more appropiate. Currently I'm calling that just before +sharedApplication --- and what do you say, I get a main menu :-) Quit from there doesn't work, but I suspect that's because the Apple-Q shortcut is still in the other menu or something like that, but I'm a step ahead already :-) Looks MUCH better now...

Do you have a "MainMenu.nib" file,

No. I don't have any *.nib files.

 with a menu in it? Do you have a NSRunLoop configured and
running?

Well, not much configuation done on my side. I added a number of timers and other stuff (I also suspect that the IOKit monitoring hooks to the runloop eventually), and just use [NSApp run] after everything is set up. So far, that has worked just fine.

If the answer was no to any of these questions, why is that?

*Checks answers*... oh, no MainMenu.nib file. Thing is, I only did a quick search for the nib format, didn't find anything, so I'm not using it. Interface builder can create them, but I can't use that --- it runs on Macs only, and IB-projects seem to be a nightmare to localize. I'm used to just pulling the strings out of our localization database at buildtime, which means I'd have to write a tool to incorporate them into the nib files to create the localized GUIs. Certainly possible, but we are not selling software build systems, so I didn't do a lot of research into that area.

I wouldn't start trying to access the menu before "-applicationWill/ DidFinishLaunching:" if I could help it. See if it isn't working OK
at that time if you just leave it alone while it's getting set up.

It seems to work now, but I might do that anyway. The documentation seems rather unspecific as to whether things run async during startup or not, especially since I never had problems on any box with just calling +sharedApplication, creating all the windows and stuff, and finally opening my first window, before dropping into the main eventloop, But then, I'm setting up quite a few things, which probably uses more than one timeslot...

In any case, the pointer to NSApplicationMain() looks great :-)

Thanx,
  Christian

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