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<\/figure><\/li><\/ul>Menus across iPadOS and macOS<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n The code ended up not being to difficult, once I figured it out. Of course, that is almost always the case. Moving from all the programming habits I developed in college and the few years that I made my living as developer, to modern languages and architectures, has been hard. While I fully understand the concepts, putting it in practice can be difficult. So let’s look at the code behind the Menu Builder function in Swift:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
override func buildMenu(with builder: UIMenuBuilder) {\n super.buildMenu(with: builder)\n \n \/\/ Ensure that the builder is modifying the menu bar system.\n guard builder.system == UIMenuSystem.main else { return }\n \n \/\/ Meeting Menu\n let advanceMeetingStatus = UIKeyCommand(title: \"Advance Meeting Status\", action: #selector(handleKeyAdvanceMeetingStatus(sender:)), input: UIKeyCommand.inputRightArrow, modifierFlags: .alternate, propertyList: UIKeyCommand.inputRightArrow)\n let incrementParticipants = UIKeyCommand(title: \"Increment Participants\", action: #selector(handleKeyIncrementParticipants(sender:)), input: UIKeyCommand.inputUpArrow, modifierFlags: .alternate, propertyList: UIKeyCommand.inputUpArrow)\n let decrementParticipants = UIKeyCommand(title: \"Decrement Participants\", action: #selector(handleKeyDecrementParticipants(sender:)), input: UIKeyCommand.inputDownArrow, modifierFlags: .alternate, propertyList: UIKeyCommand.inputDownArrow)\n let cancelMeeting = UIKeyCommand(title: \"End Meeting Immediately\", action: #selector(handleKeyCancelMeeting(sender:)), input: UIKeyCommand.inputLeftArrow, modifierFlags: .alternate, propertyList: UIKeyCommand.inputLeftArrow)\n \n let advanceMeetingItem = UIMenu(title: \"Advance Meeting\", image: nil, identifier: UIMenu.Identifier(\"advanceMeetingStatus\"), options: .displayInline, children: [advanceMeetingStatus])\n let incrementParticipantsItem = UIMenu(title: \"Add Participants\", image: nil, identifier: UIMenu.Identifier(\"incrementParticipants\"), options: .displayInline, children: [incrementParticipants])\n let decrementParticipantsItem = UIMenu(title: \"Remove Participants\", image: nil, identifier: UIMenu.Identifier(\"decrementParticipants\"), options: .displayInline, children: [decrementParticipants])\n let cancelMeetingItem = UIMenu(title: \"Cancel Meeting\", image: nil, identifier: UIMenu.Identifier(\"cancelMeeting\"), options: .displayInline, children: [cancelMeeting])\n \n \n let meetingMenu = UIMenu(title: \"Meeting\", children: [advanceMeetingItem,incrementParticipantsItem,decrementParticipantsItem,cancelMeetingItem])\n \n \/\/ View Menu\n let meetingView = UIKeyCommand(title: \"Meeting View\", action: #selector(handleKeyCommand1(sender:)), input: \"1\", modifierFlags: .command, propertyList: 1)\n let setupView = UIKeyCommand(title: \"Setup View\", action: #selector(handleKeyCommand2(sender:)), input: \"2\", modifierFlags: .command, propertyList: 2)\n let totalsView = UIKeyCommand(title: \"Totals View\", action: #selector(handleKeyCommand3(sender:)), input: \"3\", modifierFlags: .command, propertyList: 3)\n let helpView = UIKeyCommand(title: \"Help View\", action: #selector(handleKeyCommand4(sender:)), input: \"4\", modifierFlags: .command, propertyList: 4)\n \n let meetingViewItem = UIMenu(title: \"Meeting View\", image: nil, identifier: UIMenu.Identifier(\"meetingView\"), options: .displayInline, children: [meetingView])\n let setupViewItem = UIMenu(title: \"Setup View\", image: nil, identifier: UIMenu.Identifier(\"setupView\"), options: .displayInline, children: [setupView])\n let totalsViewItem = UIMenu(title: \"Totals View\", image: nil, identifier: UIMenu.Identifier(\"totalsView\"), options: .displayInline, children: [totalsView])\n let helpViewItem = UIMenu(title: \"Help View\", image: nil, identifier: UIMenu.Identifier(\"helpView\"), options: .displayInline, children: [helpView])\n \n let tabsMenu = UIMenu(title: \"Tabs\", children: [meetingViewItem, setupViewItem, totalsViewItem, helpViewItem])\n \n builder.insertSibling(meetingMenu, afterMenu: .edit)\n builder.insertSibling(tabsMenu, afterMenu: .edit)\n builder.remove(menu: .file)\n builder.remove(menu: .edit)\n builder.remove(menu: .format)\n builder.remove(menu: .help)\n \n }<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\nThe net of this code is to build up the actions, then the items, and then attach the items to a new UIMenu object. I add the various items ad children to the UIMenu, and then insert the UIMenu after the file menu. Since I don’t use the file menu, I then remove it, along with edit, format and help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Not too hard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
As I continue to work on Wasted Time, I now have added working keyboard shortcuts, and menu items to both the iPad and macOS versions. I can’t wait for Big Sur and iPadOS 14 to come up so I can release these to the world. First a few screenshots The code ended up not being […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_wp_convertkit_post_meta":{"form":"-1","landing_page":"0","tag":"0","restrict_content":"0"},"hide_page_title":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[548,561,257,566,427],"class_list":["post-2186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-personal-softwareandit","tag-big-sur","tag-ipados14","tag-macos","tag-menus","tag-wastedtime"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t