From NSMenuItem Class Reference If you want to specify the Backspace key as the key equivalent for a menu item, use a single character string with NSBackspaceCharacter (defined in NSText.h as 0x08...

I am trying to change the titles of some of the items in my Cocoa app's main menu. I have tried setting them both within IB and also programmatically from my app's applicationDidFinishLaunchingWith...

I have an app that sits in the menu bar, and when you click on the button it presents an NSPopover. That all works fine, but I want an NSSearchField to become the first responder, so a user can th...

I didn't use storyboard and xib, just used only code. I would like to add "Edit" Menu Programmatically. My Questions are 1) How to show "Edit" Menu / What codes need to input at comment Question 1...

How can I change the height of an NSMenuItem? When I change the font of a menu, an NSMenuItem automatically resizes to just fit the title, leaving no space above or below the title. It looks very c...

I have an NSMenuItem called history which resides in a NSMenu called menu. When my program starts history doesn't have a submenu so its disabled. Then at some point, I need a submenu for history, s...

I am creating a status bar on my app and the menus show up fine, however it does not seem to access the actions that I have set up for it. I am adding the status bar through a C function: void M...

I need to use a custom NSView subclass to draw some content, but it isn't drawing as highlighted when the user hovers and it doesn't dismiss the NSMenu when the user clicks on it. Any ideas? Edit ...

To enable Copy and Paste in my Cocoa app, I added two new menu items (copy and paste) to the menu and dragged the selector from each item to the first responder (copy and paste). However, two extra...

I am building a macOS-app using SwiftUI and the new App lifecycle. All the default macOS menu items (like cut, copy, paste) are already there after starting a new project but they’re greyed out. Ho...

I have an NSMenu popping out of an NSStatusItem using popUpStatusItemMenu. These NSMenuItems show a bunch of different links, and each one is connected with setAction: to the openLink: method of a ...

macOS 11 Big Sur in its current iteration (beta 1 through beta 6) has a bug/feature that makes it hard to have NSMenuItem with the custom view. Specifically, the custom view of an item won't get a ...

I would like to set the key equivalent of a menu bar item in IB to the backspace key (delete left of the cursor), but for some reason this doesn't seem to work. I can assign all kinds of keys to it...

I have an NSTextField in my window and 4 menu items with key equivalents ←↑→↓. When the text field is selected and I press an arrow key, I would expect the cursor to move in the text field but ins...

I want to set key equivalent " "(space) without any modifiers for NSMenuItem (in App Main Menu). As follows from documentation: For example, in an application that plays media, the Play ...

I have created a simple NSStatusBar with a NSMenu set as the menu. I have also added a few NSMenuItems to this menu, which work fine (including selectors and highlighting) but as soon as I add a cu...

Here is the thing: I have created a custom NSMenuItem with a custom NSView in it. Everything works fine except that I can't get the NSMenuItem to get highlighted (= change the background color o...

My Mac app has an NSMenu whose delegate functions validateMenuItem and menuWillOpen are never called. So far none of the solutions online have helped. It seems like I'm doing everything right: T...

I'm writing a plugin for application - custom keyboard shortcut. I can traverse through its views. I need to open popup menu, select item in it, then open its submenu and select some item in submen...

I am trying to set up some simple services on a Mac using a menubar/status script with applescript. After having read the web up and down, bearing in mind I am new to scripting, it seems I have rea...

I have an NSMenu in Interface Builder that is connected to an NSTableView's menu outlet. I want to assign Key Equivalents to the items in this menu so the user doesn't have to right click, but the...

I'm working on a menu bar app, and I'm setting a custom view using NSMenuItem's view property. The view displays ok, but I'm unable to receive any kind of mouse click events for menu items that ha...

I have subclassed NSMenu and connected a bunch of NSMenuItem's via Interface Builder. I have tested via the debugger to see that they really get initialized. The menu is set to not auto enable ite...

I have a NSMenuItem that has a keyboard shortcut. I set the shortcut like this: // Close let closeItem = NSMenuItem() closeItem.title = Resources.QUIT closeItem.action = #selector(quit) close...

I have an NSToolbarItem with an NSButton as its view and an NSMenuItem in the main menu. Both have the same action, which is sent to the first responder, not to a particular target. That method is ...