macOS NSPopUpButton and addItemWithTitle

[hiddenpremise]

EDIT: Solved
Thanks much everyone I just needed to move it out of the init method!


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I have a NSPopUpButton in my program.
I have bound that to a variable IBOutlet NSPopUpButton * mtype
I have also bound it to a method - (IBAction) selectMtype;

In the -(id)init method of my controller object I have written

- (id) init {
if (self = [super init])
{
[INDENT][mtype addItemWithTitle: @"Test Item"];[/INDENT]
}
return (self);

for some reason when I run my program, the item I add does not show up. I'm sure this is a noob error, but I have spent several hours googling and banging my head into a wall to no avail.

Thanks much

 

[MrFusion]

I have a NSPopUpButton in my program.
I have bound that to a variable IBOutlet NSPopUpButton * mtype
I have also bound it to a method - (IBAction) selectMtype;

In the -(id)init method of my controller object I have written

- (id) init {
if (self = [super init])
{
[INDENT][mtype addItemWithTitle: @"Test Item"];[/INDENT]
}
return (self);

for some reason when I run my program, the item I add does not show up. I'm sure this is a noob error, but I have spent several hours googling and banging my head into a wall to no avail.

Thanks much

This might be stating the obvious, but you can also add a menuitem in interface builder.

 

[hiddenpremise]

This might be stating the obvious, but you can also add a menuitem in interface builder.

This is true, but for the sake of the exercise, I want to figure out how to do it programmaticly.

 

[kainjow]

I'm guessing the problem is you're doing it at init, but the nib loading process isn't finished (or even started) at this point, so your outlet will still be nil. Try changing it to be in the awakeFromNib method instead.

 

[kpua]

-init methods are generally the wrong place to interact with GUI objects. You need to wait until at least -awakeWithNib.