Re: Creating Menu Bar Extras?

FROM : Tom Bradford
DATE : Sat Apr 09 20:31:41 2005

Overload the Dock icon's menu instead.  While Menu Extras may seem
'neat-o', most of the time, my XCode menu overlaps the Menu Extras,
which makes them essentially useless for people trying to access them
from Apps with large menus (and who are using 12" powerbooks).

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daniel wrote:
> One reasonable explanation is that (last I checked) all of the menu
> extras share the SystemUIServer process to provide their functionality.
>  This means that any poorly coded menu extra can easily take down the
> entire process.  Even from Apple's well-trained ranks I have seen one or
> two menu extras that have stalled or crashed the UI process. At least
> NSStatusItems, by virtue of needing to be attached to an application,
> can only crash themselves.
>
> It would be nice if Apple at least allowed the status items to be mixed
> in with the menu extras, though. It's just a poor UI all around right
> now.  I suspect it's just not high enough priority for anybody at Apple
> to address it...
>
> Daniel
>
> On Apr 9, 2005, at 1:02 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.

>
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