Introduction to Application Menus and Pop-up Lists

This document describes how menus and popup lists work and how you can use them.

Organization of This Document

This programming topic contains the following articles:

• “How Menus Work” describes Cocoa’s 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.

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