How i can get the Application Menu in Cocoa

Question

How can i get the NSMenu or NSMenuItem for the application menu (the one in the menu bar next to the apple menu). It seems to be automatically created and independent from the NSMenu i set via NSApplication setMainMenu.

By the way: I'm building my complete application without XCode, so please no InterfaceBuilder tips.

PS: MacOSX 10.5

Answer 1

Making a Cocoa app without Xcode or IB sounds masochistic to me, but to each his own... Try this: [[[NSApp mainMenu] itemAtIndex: 0] submenu].

Answer 2

Without IB, you can access the menu using the NSApplication's mainMenu:

NSMenu *mainMenu = [[NSApplication sharedApplication] mainMenu];
NSMenu *appMenu = [[mainMenu itemAtIndex:0] submenu];

for (NSMenuItem *item in [appMenu itemArray]) {
    NSLog(@"%@", [item title]);
}