Sounds to me like you want to investigate NSMenuItem's setAlternate: method.

I answered a StackOverflow question about this recently, so I'll just link to 
that post instead of typing everything again.  :)

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2808016#2808168

Cheers,

Dave

On May 18, 2010, at 1:05 PM, Laurent Daudelin wrote:

> On May 18, 2010, at 11:57, Eric Schlegel wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On May 18, 2010, at 11:35 AM, Laurent Daudelin wrote:
>> 
>>> Thanks, Nick. That works. But now I realize I would need something a little 
>>> more dynamic. I see that NSResponder has "flagsChanged:" when a modifier 
>>> flag changes but since NSMenu is not a subclass of NSResponder, I'm not 
>>> sure how to detect this once the menu is pulled down. Should I subclass my 
>>> main window to detect it?
>> 
>> Once the menu is pulled down, the Menu Manager is running a nested event 
>> loop to track user input, so no NSEvents will be sent during that time 
>> anyways.
>> 
>> Can you tell us what exactly you're trying to accomplish?
>> 
>> -eric
> 
> Well, I'd like to track the option key down when a menu is opened so that I 
> can change one of the menu item title dynamically.
> 
> -Laurent.
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