macOS Adding sub menu to Main menu in Cocoa

[xmax]

Hello,

I was customizing Main Menu for my application and some how i deleted edit item from Main Menu. Now my application needs to put this Edit Menu in Main menu. I am not able to drag NSMenu directly to main menu from Interface builder.

I am not able to insert this edit menu programmatically.
So, how can i add "Edit" menu item in Main menu.


Thanks.

 

[Thomas Harte]

You should be able to drag the "Edit Menu Item" (or any of the other menu items) directly onto the menu wherever you want it to be positioned. However, after a quick check, this doesn't work if you have any of the pull down menus in the menu you are editing currently open.

 

[HiRez]

Yeah, I think the naming is a little confusing. "Menu" refers to the entire thing (all individual drop-down menus together), and not an individual drop-down list as you might think — each of these is actually a "Menu Item", the same as each individual line in the list. So as Thomas says, drag a Menu Item onto the menu bar for a new drop-down list ("File", "Edit", etc.).

 

[xmax]

Yeah, I did it. Naming was confusing me.

Thanks.