[liuchang]

Hi, I'm very new to Mac programming and this is my first hair-pulling problem.. So please help

I created a cocoa document-based application in Xcode, and opened MainMenu.nib in IB. I want to add a new menu item, say, "show drawer", that sends showDrawer: action to FirstResponder. However, IB has a fixed list of messages understood by First Responder, from which I must pick one. How do I add showDrawer: action to the Target/Action pane of First Responder?

Thanks very much!

[techtrucker]

I may be wrong, but I would think you don't want to tie the action to First Responder, but rather create a new IBAction and tie that to your menu item. You can add the new action either in the header file or directly in Interface Builder.

[liuchang]

Hi, thanx for your reply. I managed to solve the problem

Turns out that I just need to double click "First Responder" icon in IB and then I can add new Action to it in the info window. I had to use "First Responder" because it's a multi-document application and I can't tell before-hand which document is going to respond to the message.

[techtrucker]

Glad you got it figured out, having not really worked with doc-based apps I couldn't figure out tying such actions to First Responder.