Standard Menu Layouts
The Aqua user interface guidelines specify a particular layout for an application’s main menu. They also offer suggestions for how menus should be organized. The guidelines also offer suggestions for labeling menu items. Because this is a book about Cocoa and not Aqua, not every menu guideline is covered in detail. Every developer should read the Aqua guidelines at least once, however, to ensure that their menu layouts are consistent with other Mac OS X applications. The Aqua guidelines can be found at /Developer/Documentation/Essentials/ AquaHIGuidelines/AHIGMenus/index.html on any Mac OS X machine with the developer tools installed.
Menu Support in Interface Builder
Interface Builder is designed to help developers follow ...
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