How to set color of NSPopupButton Menu Item

Question

This is an answer, rather than a question. Searching online, I only found a really hacked, contorted answer to this question (http://www.cocoabuilder.com/archive/cocoa/58379-cha

Answer 1

I just got a same problem.

To preserve original text attributes, my solution is here:

NSRange range = NSMakeRange(0, 0);
NSAttributedString *cellStr = [[self.popup cell] attributedTitle];
NSMutableDictionary *cellAttr = [[cellStr attributesAtIndex:range.location effectiveRange:&range] mutableCopy];
[cellAttr setObject:[NSColor redColor] forKey:NSForegroundColorAttributeName];

NSArray *menuItems = [self.popup itemArray];    
for (NSMenuItem *menu in menuItems ) {
    NSString *orgTitle = [menu title];
    NSMutableAttributedString *title = [[NSMutableAttributedString alloc] initWithString:orgTitle attributes:cellAttr];

    [menuItem setAttributedTitle:title];
}

Answer 2

Just a note here that the question above is in fact the answer. There are a lot of links on the web with too complex solutions based on older APIs and I thought it would be helpful to write this posting as a reference.