Issue with Quit application menu in cocoa application

Question

I have a cocoa application running on Mac OS 10.6.8 I am adding an entry to apple menu in the app, for quitting my application. The code is like this:

item = [menu addItemWithTitle: @"Quit Myapp" , NSLocalizedString(@"Quit", nil), applicationName] action:@selector(terminate:) keyEquivalent:@"q"];

[item setTarget:NSAPP];

Now, my problem is that when a modal dialog is opened using runModal of NSOpenPanel, this quit menu item is still enabled. Rest of the menu items are disabled as usual. I am not able to understand why.

If I change the above code so that menu item's target is not NSApp, but another cocoa object, then the problem disappears.

Could someone please let me know if it is a known issue. Is it wrong to set the NSApp as a menu item's target?

Answer 1

Why don't you use the Application Menu from Interface Builder?

Answer 2

I agree with the others that doing this is probably a bad idea. That said, set (or leave) the target as nil to target the responder chain. That will probably make it disable when a model window is up.

Update:

Hmm. Checking a new MainMenu NIB, I see that the Quit menu item does actually target the application object. So, that may not be the issue.

By the way, in the code snippets above, you're targeting NSAPP, whatever that is, rather than NSApp.

Also, the argument list to -addItemWithTitle:... is all messed up and makes no sense. You should clean up your question to reflect actual code.