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macos swift nsmenu Swift

I'm wondering if anyone has experience with I'm having trouble with I've tried everything I can think of but I'm currently working on a macOS application using Swift and I have a custom view that I want to include in an `NSMenu`... The question arises when I'm trying to add a custom view to the menu; it doesn't render correctly, and in some cases, it doesn't appear at all. I'm using macOS 13.6 and Xcode 14.0. Here's a snippet of my code where I create the menu and the custom view: ```swift let menu = NSMenu(title: "Custom Menu") let customView = NSView(frame: NSRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: 200, height: 50)) customView.wantsLayer = true customView.layer?.backgroundColor = NSColor.blue.cgColor let menuItem = NSMenuItem() menuItem.view = customView menu.addItem(menuItem) NSApplication.shared.mainMenu = menu ``` When I run the application, the menu appears, but only the first item (which is blank) is visible. If I try adding text to the `NSMenuItem` or setting it as a regular menu item without the view, everything works fine: ```swift let menuItem = NSMenuItem(title: "Regular Item", action: nil, keyEquivalent: "") menu.addItem(menuItem) ``` I have also tried setting `menuItem.isHidden = false` and checking to ensure that the custom view is not out of bounds, but neither helped. Additionally, I tried using `NSMenuItem.separator()` before adding my custom view, thinking it might help with layout, but that didn't work either. I've looked through the documentation and related discussions, but I need to seem to get the custom view to display correctly. Any insights on ensuring that the `NSMenuItem` with a custom view displays properly would be greatly appreciated! This is part of a larger REST API I'm building. What am I doing wrong? What would be the recommended way to handle this? I'm working on a mobile app that needs to handle this.