Re: Updating NSMenu while it's open
Re: Updating NSMenu while it's open
- Subject: Re: Updating NSMenu while it's open
- From: Kyle Sluder <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 19:58:09 -0700
On Apr 24, 2012, at 2:50 PM, Fritz Anderson <email@hidden> wrote:
> On 20 Apr 2012, at 1:32 PM, vinayak pai wrote:
>
>> Is there a way to update the menu while it's open
>> without any mouse movement like System WiFi menu?
>
> Others may have some magic for you (the list has only just come unstuck, and hasn't gotten beyond Friday as I write this), but you should be prepared for the possibility that like many Apple status items, what looks like a menu may be a custom view that imitates a menu.
Except that due to the way the Menu Manager works, you can't use view-based menu items to perfectly imitate standard menus, so this is probably not an option for your app. You could reimplement the entire thing as a window, but that wouldn't play nice with accessibility.
--Kyle Sluder
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