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thanks - i seem to recall i tried calling it on NSStatusitem itself but made no difference.

I’ll join the Cocoa dev group as you suggest though.

Subject: Re: NSStatusItem popUpStatusItemMenu shows menu over main menubar instead of below it
From: email@hidden
Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2015 22:00:28 -0500
CC: email@hidden
To: email@hidden

This would have been a better fit for the cocoa-dev mailing list, since this has nothing to with the Xcode IDE itself.

You are setting the menu on some view (whatever pimpl->getView() returns) rather than the NSStatusItem itself. Set the menu property of the NSStatusItem rather than some view. When it's on the view, it is a contextual menu for that view, which is presumably why it shows up on top of it.

Regards,

Ken

On Jun 8, 2015, at 9:23 PM, Dan Stenning <email@hidden> wrote:

I have this cocoa code in order to show a menu when a “menu app” or menu-extras icon is clicked on
on the menu bar.

Only trouble is it pops up on top of my menu-app icon, at the very top instead of right _below_ the menu bar. What am i doing wrong ?

here is the code in question:

// NOTE: pimpl->statusItem is a  NSStatusItem*

void SystemTrayIconComponent::createMenu()
{

NSMenuItem *tItem = nil;

pimpl->theMenu = [[NSMenu alloc] initWithTitle:@""];
[pimpl->theMenu setAutoenablesItems:NO];


[pimpl->theMenu addItemWithTitle:@"One" action:nil keyEquivalent:@""];
[pimpl->theMenu addItemWithTitle:@"Two" action:nil keyEquivalent:@""];
[pimpl->theMenu addItemWithTitle:@"Three" action:nil keyEquivalent:@""];

[pimpl->theMenu addItem:[NSMenuItem separatorItem]];

tItem = [pimpl->theMenu addItemWithTitle:@"Quit" action:@selector(terminate:) keyEquivalent:@"q"];
[tItem setKeyEquivalentModifierMask:NSCommandKeyMask];

NSStatusBar *statusBar = [NSStatusBar systemStatusBar];
pimpl->statusItem = [statusBar statusItemWithLength:NSVariableStatusItemLength];
   // [pimpl->statusItem retain];

[pimpl->statusItem setToolTip:@"This is our tool tip text"];
[pimpl->statusItem setHighlightMode:YES];
[pimpl->getView() setMenu:pimpl->theMenu];

}

void SystemTrayIconComponent::showDropdownMenu(Point<int> mousePos)


[pimpl->statusItem popUpStatusItemMenu: pimpl->theMenu ];

}