Re: MenuBar icon in Cocoa?
Re: MenuBar icon in Cocoa?
- Subject: Re: MenuBar icon in Cocoa?
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 16:21:18 -0800
Ah, I forgot to mention that in my mail...However, what the sound prefs
panel and the internet connect applications are doing, is different from
that. The NSStatusItem method requires the application to be running...
Anyway, this was discussed as recently as 2-3 days ago on this list or
email@hiddending NSStatusItem.
It was on the omnigroup list (see
http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/archive/macosx-
dev/2002-January/023111.html), which I wasn't subscribed to, but now I
am. :->
However, I didn't find any discussion of *why* people are taking the
trouble to reverse-engineer the menuling stuff. What is the actual
benefit, as compared to an app that uses NSStatusBar and gets rid of its
dock item? The fact that using NSStatusBar requires your app to be
running doesn't seem important; the menuling stuff loads your bundle
into the system UI server, which seems like essentially the same thing.
But there must be some benefit, or presumably Apple themselves would
have just used NSStatusBar and left it at that.
Is there a more complete discussion of these issues somewhere? Thanks!
Ben Haller
Stick Software
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