Cannot seem to setEnabled:NO on NSMenuItem

Christoffer picture Christoffer · Feb 20, 2012 · Viewed 9.8k times · Source

I have subclassed NSMenu and connected a bunch of NSMenuItem's via Interface Builder. I have tested via the debugger to see that they really get initialized.

The menu is set to not auto enable items. Still when I set any of my NSMenuItem's to [myMenuItem setEnabled:NO] they continue to be enabled. Even if I call [self update] from within the NSMenu subclass.

What am I missing?

Answer

vqdave picture vqdave · May 7, 2013

Had the same issue, so I thought I'd post my solution. NSMenu auto enables NSMenuButtons, so we have to override that.

In IB:

You should uncheck "Auto Enables Items"

Or programmatically:

// Disable auto enable
[myMenu setAutoenablesItems:NO];

// Test it
[myMenuButton setEnabled:NO];
[myMenuButton setEnabled:YES];