Re: Position of NSStatusItem

FROM : Joachim Deelen
DATE : Tue Nov 20 22:57:05 2007

Hi Fabian,

since this is an international, english list, I think we should write 
english here. Even though my mother tongue is german too...

You can't create a View for the StatusItem with that size: The max 
height of the MenuBar is 22px. So I thing creating a view with a 
height of 50 will fail.

It's better to use the following:

[[NSView alloc] initWithFrame:NSMakeRect(0.0, 0.0, [statusBarItem 
length], [[statusBarItem statusBar] thickness])]

This takes the actual length of created StatusItem and the thickness 
of the MenuBar into account.

Hope this helps

Joachim

Am 20.11.2007 um 22:40 schrieb [nexUmoja] Fabian Jäger:

> Hallo Joachim,
> erstmal danke für deinen Versuch mir zu helfen. Ich habe folgenden 
> Code:
>
> // instantiate statusbar-icon
>         NSStatusBar *systemBar = [NSStatusBar systemStatusBar];
>             theItem = [systemBar statusItemWithLength: 
> NSVariableStatusItemLength];
>         [theItem retain];
>         NSView *tmpView = [[NSView alloc] initWithFrame:NSMakeRect(0, 0, 
> 50, 50)];
>         [theItem setView:tmpView];
>         
>         NSRect globalOrigin = [[[theItem view] window] frame];
>         NSLog(@"%f/%f", globalOrigin.origin.x, globalOrigin.origin.y);
>         
>         [theItem setView:nil];
>         [tmpView release];
>
> Leider bekomme ich immer x=-22 und y=0 als Ergebnis. Ich habe keine 
> Ahnung, woran das liegt :(
>
> Fabian
>
>
> On 20.11.2007, at 22:11, Joachim Deelen wrote:
>

>> Hi Fabian,
>>
>> I'm currently working on an application, using a NSStatusItem with 
>> a custom view. With the following I can get the origin of the 
>> NSStatusItem
>>
>> NSRect rect = [[[statusItem view] window ] frame];
>>
>> Since I'm on a 24" iMac, the origin is about x=1525 y=1178
>>
>> I don't know if this works, if you don't use a custom view.
>>
>> regards
>> Joachim