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# setTitle(_:)

Sets the string displayed in the receiver when the user isn’t pressing the mouse button.

```
func setTitle(_ string: String?)
```

## Parameters

`string`

The string to display.

## Discussion

For pull-down menus that get their titles from a menu item, this method simply sets the pop-up button cell’s menu item to the first item in the menu. For pop-up menus, if a menu item whose title matches `aString` exists, this method makes that menu item the current selection; otherwise, it creates a new menu item with the title `aString`, adds it to the pop-up menu, and selects it.

## See Also

[`init(textCell:pullsDown:)`](/documentation/AppKit/NSPopUpButtonCell/init(textCell:pullsDown:))

Returns an `NSPopUpButtonCell` object initialized with the specified title.


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