Question

I’m distributing two different versions of one product (like light and pro version). I don’t know how to use the same MainMenu.xib if I can not change the placeholder NewApplication in a dynamic way. I would like to use the bundle name instead of “NewApplication”.
I hope there is an official way to do this without hacking.

Thank you,

Answer 1

I’d do it like this:

NSMenu *menuBar = [NSApp mainMenu];
// we know that the application is always at the very left
NSMenu *applicationMenu = [menuBar itemAtIndex:0];
// we know that the quit-menu item is always the last element
NSMenuItem *quitMenuItem = [applicationMenu itemAtIndex:
                                  [applicationMenu numberOfItems] - 1];

quitMenuItem.title = [quitMenuItem.title
                    stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@"NewApplication"
                                              withString:@"SomeOtherName"];

You could also set tags on the menu items you want to change.