Hello, I thought that by implementing the validation method it wouldn't matter if the menu item has an action set on it. That was the problem. Once I set the action, the validation method started being called.
Thanks, Daniel On Jun 23, 2011, at 5:42 PM, Nick Zitzmann wrote: > > On Jun 23, 2011, at 10:17 AM, Daniel Luis dos Santos wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I have a submenu of the File menu that gets loaded with menu items on >> awakeFromNib(). >> Problem is that the method that does the menu item enabling is not being >> called on the submenu's items and so they are not enabled. >> >> I implemented the validateUserInterfaceItem() method in a class and have set >> the target of the created menu items to that class. >> It gets called for every menu item except the one with the submenu. If I >> expand the submenu it doesn't get called. >> What am I missing ? > > That message will be sent to the menu item's target if it implements > -validateMenuItem: or -validateUserInterfaceItem: (to be pedantic, they are > methods and not functions). Are you sure the target & action of the menu > items are being set correctly? If the action wasn't set, then they won't be > enabled. If the target wasn't set, and nothing in the responder chain > implements the action, then they won't be enabled. If the target & action > were set, then they should be enabled by default, but maybe the target > implemented one of those methods and returned NO, which would explain why > they're off. > > Also, did you ensure -autoenablesItems is turned on in the submenu? It should > be by default... > > Nick Zitzmann > <http://www.chronosnet.com/> > _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list ([email protected]) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [email protected]
