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Re: Menu bar WITHOUT dock icon?

Subject: Re: Menu bar WITHOUT dock icon?
From: "M. Uli Kusterer" <email@hidden>
Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 14:36:08 +0200

At 20:24 Uhr -0700 16.05.2005, Adam Leonard wrote:

Does anyone know how? Also, if anyone rejects to the design of my app, please tell me.

The most reliable way to get the behavior you want is to split your app into two parts: A GUI app that manages the windows and has a dock icon and menu bar, and the daemon that takes care of the status item and background behavior, and launches the GUI as needed. You can use a framework to share code between the two.

A menu bar without a dock icon isn't a good idea, as users will be unable to bring your application back to front once the windows have been covered by other windows. Not all users know how to use Exposé, and they usually don't want to close all windows to get at yours.

And in addition, your GUI app can be double-clicked by your users to bring up the window if they want, which may be a nice additional feature.

PS - Would you mind if I forwarded your message to the mac-gui-dev mailing list? I think there'd be some interest in that discussion there, and you're welcome to join. -- Cheers, M. Uli Kusterer ------------------------------------------------------------ "The Witnesses of TeachText are everywhere..." http://www.zathras.de _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Cocoa-dev mailing list (email@hidden) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: This email sent to email@hidden Follow-Ups: Re: Menu bar WITHOUT dock icon? From: Andy Lee <email@hidden> Re: Menu bar WITHOUT dock icon? From: Adam Leonard <email@hidden> References: >Menu bar WITHOUT dock icon? (From: Adam Leonard <email@hidden>) Prev by Date: Re: Accessing MP3 and AAC album art Next by Date: Sharing instances between NIB's? Previous by thread: Re: Menu bar WITHOUT dock icon? Next by thread: Re: Menu bar WITHOUT dock icon? Index(es): Date Thread