Custom NSMenu item

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how can i go about making a custom NSMenu for a menulet such as this?

Is this an NSMenu or is it a borderless window and if so how would i go about this? Thanks!

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 10:30

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It's an app running running on the OSX status bar.

See Status Bar Programming at Apple. Also, NSStatusBar and NSStatusItem

This SO post has some additional pointers:

How to create a Menubar application for Mac

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answered Feb 14 '12 at 01:31

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 14 '12 at 04:05

More specifically it could be an NSPopover, an NSWindow, or even NSStatusItem.view's custom view. In the case of an NSWindow (often a utility form of NSPanel) (or the NSPopover) you would manually open the window when the status item is clicked, using the status item's -(void)setAction and -(void)setTarget. If you use a custom view for the status item, this would be done in -mouseDown:.

Check out this post - I found it useful.

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 14 '12 at 01:39

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Look at the documentation for NSStatusItem. I believe you can have it display a view instead of a standard NSMenu which is what it looks like they are doing in that image.

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