How can I put multiple lines of text in NSMenuItem?

Question

I would like to create an NSMenuItem with multiple lines of text, and I will also like the icon next to both lines of text. I cannot use a custom view because then it will not stand out correctly, and I cannot just put a new line in the title bar, because the new line turns into a space. What should I do?

Answer 1

It turns out that although you cannot put a newline character in the title property of a menu item, you can put a newline in the attributedTitle string. Something like this will work:

 item.attributedTitle = [[NSAttributedString alloc] initWithString:@"line 1\nline 2"];