Re: Creating Menu Bar Extras?

FROM : Dave Rehring
DATE : Sat Apr 09 19:05:45 2005

On 4/9/05 8:05 AM, Stéphane Sudre at <email_removed> wrote:
>
> On samedi, avril 9, 2005, at 10:02  AM, Kevin Ballard wrote:
>

>>> [...]

>> Yeah, that is annoying. I don't know why they're preventing
>> third-party developers from making their own menu extras.

>
> One reason could be that this is a buggy solution from a Look & Feel
> point of view on at least 2 points:
>
> - on my OS X 10.2.8 machine, when I work with Project Builder and then
> go back to the Finder, the Menu Extras are drawn completely incorrectly
>
> - on any OS X release, if you click on a menu title in an application
> and then move the mouse over a Menu extra, if you try to go back to the
> menu title, you can't. IMHO, the day this one is fixed, hens will need
> dental care.


How is this worse than using NSStatus items?  I've got both in my menu bar,
and dragging from the app menu's to the right side, none of the items using
NSStatus menu's activate, but the Menu Extra's do.

As well, if you just click on an NSStatus item [and you get a menu], it also
doesn't behave properly, as dragging to other NSStatus item's menu's don't
drop down.  But if you drag over a Menu Extra, it does display the item's
menu. [but then dragging back to the first item no longer displays the
menu].

Later,
--
David Rehring                  Psychos do not explode when light hits
VP of Research and Development them, no matter how crazy they are...
Atimi Software, Inc.
www.atimi.com                  And totally insane guy!