Cocoa Recipes for Mac OS X: The Vermont Recipes, Second Edition

Recipe 5. Configure the Main Menu

Highlights

Creating an application controller and delegate

Using resources in the application package

Adding menus and menu items to the menu bar

More about action methods and the sender parameter

Validating (enabling and disabling) menu items

Using and manipulating the Cocoa responder chain

Virtually every Macintosh application outside the world of games has a main menu. It appears in the menu bar at the top of the screen when the application is active. You have already seen that it comes with the document-based application template when you create a new project, in the MainMenu nib file. It also comes with other application templates. Many of its menu items are prewired, leaving to you only the relatively ...