Cocoa® Programming

NSMenuItem Class

The NSMenuItem class contains all the information relating to a specific menu item. Several attributes, which are shown in Table 16.1, are common to all menu items.

Table 16.1. Menu Item Properties

Menu Item Property	Purpose
title	The text displayed on the item, such as Cut. An NSString object.
image	An optional NSImagethat is displayed to the left of the menu item’s title.
key equivalent	The key that can be used in conjunction with the Cmd key to activate the item from the keyboard. (Cmd-C for Cut) An NSStringobject.
target	The target object that will receive a message when the item is chosen. Often, this is nil, which sends the message to the first responder.
action	The Objective-C selector for the action message to be sent ...