Re: Re: Scrolling text in Status Item - adding a menu
Re: Re: Scrolling text in Status Item - adding a menu
- Subject: Re: Re: Scrolling text in Status Item - adding a menu
- From: mercer <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 21:15:44 -0500
I don't have any advice, Eric.
But I'd really, really like to know if anyone knows how Apple puts the
pop-down slider in the volume control menubar item.
Because if someone could tell me how that's done, I might be able to
finish my idea of having a menubar item (an NSStatusItem, actually)
pop-down a textview with some text in it when the user clicks on it.
-m
On 10/9/06, Eric Blanpied <email@hidden> wrote:
OK, I've got the scrolling text working well in my NSStatusItem. I
used setView to set a custom view, drew the text into an image an
then used compositeToPoint: fromRect: to animate the text.
Now, I need to make the NSStatusItem drop a menu when clicked, and
that's got me stumped. It seems that when you use setView: you give
up on ALL the menu behavior. Even using setMenu: and then
popUpStatusItemMenu: won't make a menu appear. If I leave out the
setView: call it works fine. It's as if you get to use either
setView: or setMenu:, but not both.
Any advice?
thanks
-eric
On Oct 8, 2006, at 12:43 pm, Eric Blanpied wrote:
> Thanks, but it sounds like you're providing advice on sizing the
> view, while what I'm really interested in is advice about animating
> (scrolling right-to left) text in the menubar, presumably in a view.
>
> Does anyone have any pointers?
>
> thanks
>
> -e
>
> On Oct 8, 2006, at 12:00 pm, Philippe Heinrich Regenass wrote:
>
>> hai
>>
>> i think you can break the text with "\n" and then you can read the
>> height from text to resize your view or textfield....
>>
>> i don't know...
>>
>> best regards
>>
>> philippe
>> Am 08.10.2006 um 20:48 schrieb Eric Blanpied:
>>
>>> I need to create an NSStatusItem which displays a bit of
>>> horizontally scrolling text, much like the messages the airport
>>> menu extra displays about connection status and so on.
>>>
>>> My hunch is that the best approach is to create a View-based
>>> NSStatusItem with a static width, and do some sort of animation
>>> with the text. I've never done anything like this, though, so any
>>> advice, pointers, samples would be really helpful.
>>>
>>> thanks
>>>
>>> -e
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