Re: Creating Menu Bar Extras
Re: Creating Menu Bar Extras
- Subject: Re: Creating Menu Bar Extras
- From: Dale Gillard <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2005 23:30:01 +1000
On Sat, 9 Apr 2005 11:45:46 -0700 daniel wrote:
Yeah, that's a drawback to the menu bar items. I consider there to be
more drawbacks to the dock menu, though:
1. No way to convey dynamic UI feedback to users who run with the dock
hidden.
2. No way to customize the format of the menu (graphics or special
formatting).
3. No way to appear in the dock as an LSUIElement.
4. No way to provide keyboard access to the menu.
Overall, the NSStatusItem API provides so much more flexibility that
it's not reasonable to suggest overloading the dock menu as an
alternative for what many NSStatusItems are trying to accomplish.
It seems to me that Apple have given us Dashboard in Tiger to resolve
the problem of third-parties not being able to create Menu Extras. It
would seem to address all the drawbacks above, though it's limited to
10.4.
Dale
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