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Support custom menu bar items #1
Description
Feature Request
Perry currently doesn't support adding custom menu bar items to the macOS app menu bar. Apps built with Perry get the default menu bar but have no way to add custom menus or menu items.
Use Case
When building a macOS app (e.g., a JSON viewer), it's common to expose actions like "Open File", "Paste from Clipboard", "Find", "Expand All", etc. through the menu bar. Currently the only way to trigger actions is via addKeyboardShortcut(), but there's no corresponding menu bar UI for discoverability.
Proposed API
Something like:
import { menuBarAddMenu, menuBarAddItem } from "perry/ui"
// Create a top-level menu
const fileMenu = menuBarAddMenu("File")
menuBarAddItem(fileMenu, "Open...", "o", 1, () => { openFile() })
menuBarAddItem(fileMenu, "Paste JSON", "v", 1, () => { pasteJson() })
const viewMenu = menuBarAddMenu("View")
menuBarAddItem(viewMenu, "Expand All", "1", 1, () => { expandAll() })
menuBarAddItem(viewMenu, "Collapse All", "2", 1, () => { collapseAll() })This would allow Perry apps to have proper macOS menu bars with keyboard shortcut indicators, matching native app conventions.
Current Workaround
Using addKeyboardShortcut() for all actions and displaying keyboard hints in the app's UI (e.g., an about screen listing shortcuts). This works but isn't discoverable through the standard macOS menu bar.
Activity
proggeramlug commentedon Mar 2, 2026
This has now been implemented.
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