Re: Creating Menu Bar Extras?
Re: Creating Menu Bar Extras?
- Subject: Re: Creating Menu Bar Extras?
- From: Tom Bradford <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 09 Apr 2005 14:31:41 -0400
- Organization: OpenLink Software
Overload the Dock icon's menu instead. While Menu Extras may seem
'neat-o', most of the time, my XCode menu overlaps the Menu Extras,
which makes them essentially useless for people trying to access them
from Apps with large menus (and who are using 12" powerbooks).
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daniel wrote:
One reasonable explanation is that (last I checked) all of the menu
extras share the SystemUIServer process to provide their functionality.
This means that any poorly coded menu extra can easily take down the
entire process. Even from Apple's well-trained ranks I have seen one or
two menu extras that have stalled or crashed the UI process. At least
NSStatusItems, by virtue of needing to be attached to an application,
can only crash themselves.
It would be nice if Apple at least allowed the status items to be mixed
in with the menu extras, though. It's just a poor UI all around right
now. I suspect it's just not high enough priority for anybody at Apple
to address it...
Daniel
On Apr 9, 2005, at 1:02 AM, Kevin Ballard wrote:
Yeah, that is annoying. I don't know why they're preventing
third-party developers from making their own menu extras.
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