Re: Chaging NSStatusItem menus.

FROM : Jeremy
DATE : Mon Feb 25 22:50:00 2008

August,

If you would like to send me your code that would be helpful. But I do 
my menu bar programatically due to the actual nature of my status bar...

I.S.,

Here's my code to quit iTunes. barItem is the NSStatusItem, iTunes is 
the Scripting Bridge iTunes Framework, and iTunesQuit is the new menu 
I want.

- (void)quitItunes:(id)sender
{
   [[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] removeObserver:self];
   [iTunes quit];
   iTunesQuit = [[NSMenu alloc] initWithTitle:@""];
   qOne = [iTunesQuit addItemWithTitle:@"Start Watching iTunes Again" 
action:@selector(beginWatching:) keyEquivalent:@""];
   [barItem setTitle:@"Start iTunes"];
   //[barItem setAction:@selector(beginWatching:)];
   [barItem setMenu:iTunesQuit];
   //[[NSApplication sharedApplication] terminate:self];
}

Thanks,
Jeremy
"For a long time it puzzled me how something so expensive, so leading 
edge, could be so useless, and then it occurred to me that a computer 
is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, 
while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do 
incredibly stupid things. They are, in short, a perfect match." - Bill 
Bryson


On Feb 25, 2008, at 4:44 PM, August Trometer wrote:

> I just threw together a quick sample project, and I didn't have any 
> trouble switching menus.
>
> Simply put:
>
> I've got 2 menus, fooMenu and barMenu, both in IB. I have from my 
> controller outlets connected to both. In the controller,
>
> [statusItem setMenu:fooMenu];
>
> and
>
> [statusItem setMenu:barMenu];
>
> both work flawlessly for me.
>
> If you want the sample code, contact me offlist, and I'll send it to 
> you.
>
>
> -- August
>
>
>
>
>
> On Feb 25, 2008, at 4:24 PM, Jeremy wrote:
>

>> Hello,
>>
>> How can I switch menus for an NSStatusItem programatically? So if 
>> the user chooses to "quit" the application from the NSStatusItem I 
>> can switch it's menu to be another menu with launch options.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Jeremy

>