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Mac OSX Developer's Guide
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Mac OSX Developer's Guide

by Jesse Feiler
October 2001
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
594 pages
21h 44m
English
Morgan Kaufmann
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520 9 Chapter 24: Managing Menus
You create each contextual menu by itself in Interface Builder,
and you attach it to an interface element's menu outlet. Each
view (and thus each interface element) has its own menu out-
let.
Contextual menu commands should be named with the same
names as menu bar commands. Although the Finder imple-
ments a special Show Package Contents command in the con-
textual menu for packages, such an interface choice is
unusual.
Remember, too, that contextual menus appear just that way~
in a context. Half a dozen particularly relevant menu com-
mands are sufficient. Users know the menu bar is there ...
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ISBN: 9780122513411