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blindowl
blindowl

Reputation: 33

Disable/enable NSMenu item

I've created a menu bar app, a NSMenu object using the Interface Builder (following this tutorial). The menu has two items:

Start Commando

Stop Commando

How can I disable/enable the menu items when they're clicked? I've set disabled "Auto Enables Items" and I can manually enable/disable the items in the Attributes inspector, but how can I achieve the same thing when their functions are called?

When "Start Commando" is clicked I want the item to disable and "Stop Commando" to enable. And the other way around when "Stop Commando" is clicked.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 3643

Answers (4)

empedocle
empedocle

Reputation: 1932

As others say, there is a isEnabled property for NSMenuItems. One also needs to uncheck Auto Enables Items for that menu or sub-menu in the Attributes Inspector in Xcode, or through code, to allow the setting to take effect.

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To get it to change on selection, in the IBAction called for the menu item, likely in your NSWindowController, do something like this:

@IBAction private func myMenuAction(sender: NSMenuItem) {
     sender.isEnabled = false 
}

You will not be able to then select the menu item afterwards. I assume you re-enable it else where as so:

if let appDelegate = NSApplication.shared.delegate as? AppDelegate {
    appDelegate.myMenuItem.isEnabled = true
}

Code untested.

Upvotes: 1

user9359038
user9359038

Reputation:

You can try below code :

let menu = NSMenu();
menu.autoenablesItems = false

Upvotes: 2

Mukul More
Mukul More

Reputation: 564

Swift provides with setEnabled property that can be used on NSMenuItem you are trying to enable or disable.

You can do the following :

@IBOutlet weak var startMenuItem: NSMenuItem! 

startMenuItem.isEnabled = false or true

Upvotes: 2

Ferrakkem Bhuiyan
Ferrakkem Bhuiyan

Reputation: 2783

Declare a BOOL value for instance 

BOOL isActive 

if(isActive)
{
   //show menu
}
else
{
   //hide your menu
}

also make BOOL true when your view dismiss

Upvotes: 0

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