Re: Position of NSStatusItem

FROM : [nexUmoja] Fabian Jäger
DATE : Tue Nov 20 23:03:45 2007

Now I use this code:

// instantiate statusbar-icon
       NSStatusBar *systemBar = [NSStatusBar systemStatusBar];
               theItem = [systemBar statusItemWithLength: 
NSVariableStatusItemLength];
       [theItem retain];
       
       NSView *tmpView = [[NSView alloc] initWithFrame:NSMakeRect(0.0, 
0.0, [theItem length], [[theItem statusBar] thickness])];
       [theItem setView:tmpView];
       
       NSRect globalOrigin = [[[theItem view] window] frame];
       NSLog(@"%f/%f", globalOrigin.origin.x, globalOrigin.origin.y);
       
       [theItem setView:nil];
       [tmpView release];

The output is: "0.000000/0.000000" ... don't really know what's wrong 
with the code :-(

Fabian
nexUmoja.org


On 20.11.2007, at 22:57, Joachim Deelen wrote:

> 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