NSMenuItem toggle Bold Font style - objective-c

Question

I have to implement NSMenuItem such a way that selected NSMenuItem should have Bold Text , this is what i have done,
#implementation NSMenuItem (Font)
-(void)setBoldStyle:(bool)bBold{
NSString* title = [self title] ;
NSFont *pFont = (bold)?[NSFont boldSystemFontOfSize:14]:[NSFont menuFontOfSize:12];
NSDictionary* fontAttribute = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:
pFont, NSFontAttributeName,
nil] ;
NSMutableAttributedString* newTitle = [[NSMutableAttributedString alloc] initWithString:title
attributes:fontAttribute] ;
[self setAttributedTitle:newTitle] ;
[newTitle release] ;
}
#end
With Above peiece of code, i am able to set the bold text when a particular NSMenuItem gets selected,
but if it needs to be toggled ( Means if an item was bold earlier, it should be normal now), then its not happening,
This is the way i am calling it,
// have we selected any menuitem yet
if ( prevStatusIndex >0){
// then deselect it
pTempMenuItem = [pMenu itemAtIndex:prevStatusIndex];
[pTempMenuItem setBoldStyle:NO];
}
prevStatusIndex = clientStatus+1;
pTempMenuItem = [pMenu itemAtIndex:prevStatusIndex]; // 1 because a separator added
[pTempMenuItem setBoldStyle:YES];
Any idea whats going wrong ?

Answer 1

You need to use similar to this :
if ([pTempMenuItem boldStyle]) {
NSLog(#"currently bold. change it");
[pTempMenuItem setBoldStyle:NO]);
}
else{
[pTempMenuItem setBoldStyle:YES]);
NSLog(#"currenlty normal. change it");
}

Answer 2

We can only guess as there is a lot of information missing from your question - where are prevStatusIndex, pMenuItem, pMenu and clientStatus declared and given values? What is the valid range of clientStatus? Etc.
In the comments you've said you have used the debugger and breakpoints, but gave no indication of what values you saw.
You really need to provide more detail so folk can help you.
Provided the selected index is never 0 (i.e. prevStatusIndex is not 0 or clientStatus is not -1) and pMenu points to the correct menu then your code works. If the selected index can be zero then you need to change your test for de-bolding to prevStatusIndex >= 0 otherwise the first entry in the menu can be bolded but not unbolded.
HTH.