UIMenuItem uses UILabel to display its title, that means we can swizzle -drawTextInRect: to support image.

UIMenuItem+CXAImageSupport is a dirty hack but should be safe in most cases.

Make a category instead of subclassing UIMenuItem gains more flexibility. Yes, I mean you can add image to awsome PSMenuItem too!

Add UIMenuItem+CXAImageSupport.{h,m} to your project.

The method names describe all. Default draws shadow as the text title. If you want to hide shadow, set hidesShadow to YES.

- (id)cxa_initWithTitle:(NSString *)title action:(SEL)action image:(UIImage *)image;
- (id)cxa_initWithTitle:(NSString *)title action:(SEL)action image:(UIImage *)image hidesShadow:(BOOL)hidesShadow;
- (void)cxa_setImage:(UIImage *)image forTitle:(NSString *)title;
- (void)cxa_setImage:(UIImage *)image hidesShadow:(BOOL)hidesShadow forTitle:(NSString *)title;

UIMenuItem+CXAImageSupport uses UIMenuItem's title to map related image since there is no any other clue of UIMenuItem I can find to connect to UILabel.

• GitHub: https://github.com/cxa
• Twitter: @_cxa
• Apps available in App Store: http://lazyapps.com

Under the MIT license. See the LICENSE file for more information.