Programmatically adding glyphs (delete key, backspace, space, etc.) to the menu item

Question

It used to be that in Carbon you could use SetMenuItemKeyGlyph. What is the alternative under 10.6? Do I need to use undocumented kindness or ...?

thank

Answer 1

Use -[NSMenuItem setKeyEquivalent:]and assign it the NSStringcharacter you want to use. NSMenuItemwill handle the translation @" "in Spacefor you etc.

Delete key (aka "Backspace". This is the usual delete button on the keyboard):

[myMenuItem setKeyEquivalent:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%c", 0x08]];

Direct delete key ("del" key):

[myMenuItem setKeyEquivalent:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%c", 0x7f]];

space:

[myMenuItem setKeyEquivalent:@" "];

Tab:

[myMenuItem setKeyEquivalent:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%c", 0x09]];