On 02/04/2009, at 12:55 PM, Rua Haszard Morris wrote:
This seems like a weird hack, and makes me think I'm going about this the wrong way - is this a normal approach?
I'm afraid so. I think the reason could be (pre)historic - the original Carbon Menu Manager (which Cocoa sits atop) constructed menus this way. It sucks, has always sucked, and looks likely that (as it has never been changed despite the vast catalogue of other changes elsewhere) will always suck.
The documentation mentions that the index of the first item in a pull-down should be 1, but it doesn't explain that you need to add a dummy item (for the zeroth) or else your first item will go missing.
Well, since it's just a list that starts at 0, how else can your first item have an index of 1 except that a dummy item be inserted?
Also, with pull-down menus, watch out for the IB bug that sets all items to hidden whenever you insert a new one.
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