NSMenuItem

Menu items belong to menus, sub meus, main menus and contextual menus, which are all the NSMenu class behaving differently.

XIB Fields

Key	Type	Value
NSMenu	reference	The cached parent of this menu item, could be derived by the object declaration is under it in the XML tree– Don't argue with apple.
NSTitle	NSString	The title of this menu item.
NSKeyEquiv	NSString	The character that is the keyboard equivalent to this menu item. s="s" S="[shift]+s" .
NSKeyEquivModMask	enum NSEventModifierFlags : NSUInt	See Modifier flag, note: shift is not a modifier, it is enterpreted based on the case of the input character.
NSMnemonicLoc	int	Purpose unclear.
NSOnImage	reference	A reference to an NSImage in the object graph, for when the menu item is active in the "on" state.
NSOffImage	reference	A reference to an NSImage in the object graph, for when the menu item is in the "off" state.
NSMixedImage	reference	A reference to an NSImage in the object graph, for when the menu item is in the "mixed"(not on or off) state e.g. multiple fonts selected, font dropdown.
NSSubmenu	NSMenu	The menu this menu item contains, if applicable.
NSIsDisabled	bool	(Optional)
NSIsSeparator	bool	Cause the menu item to become a separator. If yes then recomended NSisDisabled, to prevent selection.