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I am trying to find how to implement a custom message on the status bar, something like the Evernote "Downloading changes..." message seen here.

Is this a private API call? Any suggestions or pointers?

legobuff
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You should have a look at MTStatusBarOverlay.

samvermette
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This pretty much looks like a label put on top of the view there and then the table view right below it , should not be tough to do... 

    UILabel *label=...
    label.text=@"My Text"
    //maybe justify here so  its c enters
    //set the rectangle bounds to what they need to be 
//for the example there it would probably be (0,0,320,5) or something like that 
//and the tableview w ould be at (0,5,320,455)
Daniel
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  • I agree, it looks like it's part of the normal visible area. You'll want to adjust the background color of the label in Interface Builder and the color of the font as well. – Epsilon Prime Dec 01 '09 at 19:44
  • huh, i was hoping that there was an api to tie into, the behavior is like when you are on a call, tethered, or recording a voice memo, the message is flashing and animates on show and hide. Guess i'll go the label route for now. – legobuff Dec 01 '09 at 19:55
  • thre isnt an api for that purpose, u can recreate what you want to do pretty easily – Daniel Dec 01 '09 at 20:17
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As @sam has pointed out, MTStatusBarOverlay is a good choice and I'm currently using it in my apps. However I just found something that exactly fits what the original poster (and I) have been looking for. I love all the folks on GitHub who see some cool UI element in a new app and recreate it for the masses ... this is one of those cases. Awesomeness! Tweetbot-Like Alert Panels (Blog), and the repository is MKInfoPanelDemo at Github.

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  • I too think MTStatusBarOverlay is a good choice ;) (I'm the author). I also like Mugunth's MKInfoPanelDemo. In fact I like it that much that I first send some Pull Request and then decided to create my own repository that builds upon MKInfoPanelDemo but adds some functionality (e.g. you can specify the colors/fonts etc.) and tries to come as close to TweetBots notifications as possible (style-wise). Take a look: https://github.com/myell0w/MTInfoPanel – myell0w Dec 31 '11 at 12:56
  • I've had my eye on your fork/repo and I'm very interested in putting it to use. Seems much more flexible. – Greg Combs Jan 04 '12 at 19:09