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AIR Native Menu Flex Bug on OSX 10.6

I had a few problems with native menus on the mac recently. Some of them were menu items, that didnt react on user input (the menu shortcut did however). Another bug, which only occured on 10.6, was that the native menu of my AIR app was showing 2! mac system menus (1 normal and 1 small apple icon) and also the whole application crashed, when using specific menu items.
However, I reported the bug to Adobe and received the answer a couple of hours later:

The key thing is to not replace the NativeApplication.nativeApplication.menu. Instead, you want to modify it, for example by inserting your own menus into the existing root menu.

For example, if you want to replace the “standard” File menu with your own, you would do:

var rootMenu:NativeMenu = NativeApplication.nativeApplication.menu;
rootMenu.removeItemAt(1);
rootMenu.addSubmenuAt(menu, 1, "File");

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