On Monday, December 3, 2001, at 10:17 AM, cocoa-dev- request@lists.apple.com wrote: My solution (please don't laugh) is to put the whole string "Hide something/Show something" in the menu and then programmatically separate it by components in validateMenuItem (in particular I assume that the real menu menu items doesn't contain a slash). What do you think of that? is there a better solution? The way I usually do it is to put the strings into Localizable.strings and then set the menu title in validateMenuItem. It then doesn't matter what you call it in IB, because you'll replace the title anyway. -- Brian Webster bwebster@owlnet.rice.edu http://homepage.mac.com/bwebster