[Azrael@Paris]

Hi everyone

I hope that question was not asked before, so it's bar basic.
I'm looking to make a toggled menu item on my app but i don't find the appriopriate documentation, neither a sample code to look.
I would like to make a menu item with two step Show / Hide "Window", like the toggle menu item when you show/hide a toollbar...

It's covered by the Aqua Human Interfaces guidelines pdf, but no indication found for "How To" this... (page 48)

For the moment I have two menu items :

-> Show The Window

- (IBAction)showWindowid)sender
{
/* display our window */
[self showTheWindow:itsWindow];
}

-> Hide The Window

- (IBAction)hideWindowid)sender
{
/* close our window */
[itsWindow close];
}

Of course, I made an IBOutlet for itsWindow


If anyone have an idea, I know it's a basic question, but it'll be much apprieciated

Thx,
Az'

[fitter]

Make an outlet for an NSMenuItem in your custom class, and hook it up to the menu item you want to control the window. Make the default title "Show window".

In your header file:

...
IBOutlet NSMenuItem *wMenuItem;
...

In your .m file:

Code:
- ( IBAction )showWindow: ( id )sender
{
	[ wMenuItem setTitle: @"Hide Window" ];
	[ self showTheWindow: itsWindow ];
}

- ( IBAction )hideWindow: ( id )sender
{
	[ wMenuItem setTitle: @"Show Window" ];
	[ itsWindow close ];
}

[Rickster]

A more efficient way is to use the menu item validation protocol. Implement -(void)validateMenuItemid <NSMenuItem>)anItem on the class which implements your menu item action methods, find out which MenuItem you're being asked about by using [anItem action], and change the title using [anItem setTitle:]. This way you don't have to keep hooking up outlets for menu items, so it's easier to localize.

[Azrael@Paris]

Thanks you Fitter and Rickster for your precious help.


In my code, the window is load when the application start.
So I need to implement a Hide menu by default.
I followed in the first time the fitter method, but in that case when the window is hide using the menu item ; and the menu turn to Show, the menu doesn't respond to the action "showWindow" to follow the come back of that window...
So I will implement the Void method : it's more appropriate.

thanks again.

Az'

[00101001]

this is a shot in the dark, but shouldn't you try:

[window orderOut];

instead of:

[window close];

i thought 'close:' deallocated the window... by using 'orderOut:', you simply hide it...

just a thought

ps. I have no clue about what I'm talking about