Introduction to Application Menus and Pop-up Lists

Explains how Cocoa menus and lists work and how to manipulate items within them.

Organization of This Document

This programming topic contains the following articles:

How Menus Work describes classes for managing menus.

Enabling Menu Items describes how to enable and disable menu items.

Using Menu Item States describes how to check and uncheck a menu item by changing its state.

Removing a Menu describes how to programmatically remove a menu from the menu bar.

Setting a Menu Item’s Key Equivalent describes how to assign a key equivalent to a menu item.

Managing Pop-Up Buttons and Pull-Down Lists describes how to work with pop-up buttons and pull-down lists.

Displaying a Contextual Menu describes how to display a contextual menu associated with a view.

Views in Menu Items describes how you can provide a menu item with a custom view.