Cannot seem to setEnabled:NO on NSMenuItem

Question

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 initi

Answer 1

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

In IB:

Or programmatically:

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

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