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Re: menu extras


  • Subject: Re: menu extras
  • From: "Alan Smith" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 17:43:30 -0500

Okay. Is there a way to take it out of the dock once a pref has been set, so
you set the pref to remove the icon from the dock then quit and when you
launch the app again it's gone from the dock.

I hope it's not impossible, Alan


On 3/23/06, Mike Abdullah <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> IIRC, to create an actual menu extra is not a public API.  Apple do
> provide NSStatusBar and NSStatusItem for menu items designed to only
> appear while your app is running.
>
> However, I'm not sure you can actually take your program out of the
> dock whilst it is running if you do that.
>
> Mike.
>
> On 23 Mar 2006, at 22:07, Alan Smith wrote:
>
> > Hi everyone,
> > I want a menu extra (one of those cute little menus that reside in
> > the menu
> > bar on the far right) for my app. I don't want it to be a .menu but
> > a .app
> > that will appear in the dock, like a regular app, but can then be
> > switched
> > to just a menu extra, so it's no longer in the dock but just in the
> > menu
> > bar.
> >
> > Thanks, Alan
> >
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