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Asked: 2026-05-14T23:49:24+00:00

I need to share the same NSMenu instance between multiple popup buttons. When I

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I need to share the same NSMenu instance between multiple popup buttons.

When I create an NSPopUpButton in IB, a new menu is automatically created and inserted as a child of the NSPopUpButtonCell.

At the moment, I simply create an IBOutlet NSMenuItem* standardMenu member in my MainController and connect the “menu” outlets of the popup buttons to this, but this leaves the “fake” menus in the hierarchy.

Surely, there’s a clean way of doing this from inside IB?

Thanks in advance for any advice you might be able to give.

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  1. Editorial Team

    You should be able to build a freestanding menu in IB make all the connections, etc. you need. Then create an outlet IBOutlet NSMenu *standardMenu; that you connect to the menu in IB. Then for each popup that needs the menu just use [popupButton setMenu:standardMenu];. If for some reason it keeps the old items just tell it to remove all items first.

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