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# menu(for:)

Overridden by subclasses to return a context-sensitive pop-up menu for a given mouse-down event.

```
func menu(for event: NSEvent) -> NSMenu?
```

## Parameters

`event`

An object representing a mouse-down event.

## Discussion

The view can use information in the mouse event, such as its location over a particular element of the view, to determine what kind of menu to return. For example, a text object might display a text-editing menu when the cursor lies over text and a menu for changing graphics attributes when the cursor lies over an embedded image.

The default implementation returns the view’s normal menu.

## See Also

[`menu`](/documentation/AppKit/NSResponder/menu)

Returns the responder’s menu.


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