[BrutoBlo]

MenuExtra plugin: I want to dev one of these, but can't find documentation;

any idea?
tia

[Chuckit]

I don't think Apple wants people to make their own menu extras, so there isn't any documentation on it. Some people have hacked the API anyway, though. For example, I think the latest version of ASM is one. You might try taking a look at the source code to see how it's done.

[Angus_D]

The public API for adding items to the top-right of the menu bar is the NSStatusBar/NSStatusItem API. This means that you have to write an application to do it, but hey

[seb2]

Originally posted by Angus_D:
<STRONG>The public API for adding items to the top-right of the menu bar is the NSStatusBar/NSStatusItem API. This means that you have to write an application to do it, but hey </STRONG>

did you ever look at the nsstatusitem documentation? "documentation forthcoming" all over the place. i was suprised, though, that nsstatusitem was documented. (must be the dec dev tools)

i know, there are a couple of examples over the web and i've been able to do some stuff with this, but the state of the documentation (not only there) is still highly unsatisfactory.

[Angus_D]

Originally posted by seb2:
<STRONG>did you ever look at the nsstatusitem documentation? "documentation forthcoming" all over the place. i was suprised, though, that nsstatusitem was documented. (must be the dec dev tools)

i know, there are a couple of examples over the web and i've been able to do some stuff with this, but the state of the documentation (not only there) is still highly unsatisfactory.</STRONG>

NSStatusBar is documented, and it's pretty self-explanatory anyway. NSMenuExtras are a bit more difficult to implement.

[seb2]

Originally posted by Angus_D:
<STRONG>

NSStatusBar is documented, and it's pretty self-explanatory anyway. NSMenuExtras are a bit more difficult to implement.</STRONG>

yeah, that was a typo i made. i meant nsstatusbar. the implementation was easy to guess.

nsstatusitem would be worth documentation, though.