Re: trick to getting an NSMenu to be app's main menu?

On Feb 8, 2010, at 7:45 PM, Kyle Sluder wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 6:28 PM, Chad Leigh -- ObjectWerks Inc
> <chad+macosx-AU1NHruoRJaEK/[email protected]> wrote:
>> Is there a trick to replacing the main menu?  I have read through the menu handling and NSApplication bits on apple.com but did not see anything obvious.
> 
> This isn't supported. There's a lot of hackery going on inside AppKit
> to implement NSMenu on top of the Carbon Menu Manager.
> 
> What you're doing isn't likely to work anyway, since you seem not to
> be running the main runloop. But then again, you have omitted a decent
> chunk of code.

This got me thinking so I added in the normal app runloop in addition to my own and now the menu comes up correctly.  I basically needed it for the keyboard shortcuts for COPY in case a user wants to use a different email client other than Mail to send in a registration request.

Thanks for the input 

Chad