Re: Can NSStatusItem contain NSTextField ?
Re: Can NSStatusItem contain NSTextField ?
- Subject: Re: Can NSStatusItem contain NSTextField ?
- From: Olivier Lanctôt <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 13:14:18 -0500
What exactly doesnt work with setting a NSTextField as the status item's view?
Can you elaborate?
You might need to hack a bit, since it's a pretty unusual way of doing stuff :-)
Thanks,
On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 13:04:37 -0500, Phillip Moore <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> I am trying to put a text input field into the menubar for a project
> I'm working on for myself. I've tried tinkering around with using the
> setView method of NSStatusItem but I can't seem to make it work. I
> know some people will say putting a text input field there is a really
> bad idea, but that doesn't stop me from wanting to do it for my
> project. :-)
>
> Is setView barking up the wrong tree? If so does anyone know the
> proper way I could do this?
>
> iSeek from Ambrosia does the very thing I'm trying to do but I can't
> figure out how they do it. Some have suggested they are just drawing a
> bordlerless window on top of the menubar vs. embedding it. Before
> iSeek was bought by Ambrosia it was just a floating borderless window
> so that might lead credence to
> that argument.
>
> Thank you,
> Phillip Moore
>
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