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The NSStatusItem class represents the individual elements displayed within an NSStatusBar object.

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MAAttachedWindow for NSStatusItem without a custom view

I have a simple app that has a NSStatusItem, which only displays an icon. I would now like to add functionality that would make a MAAttachedWindow appear under the NSStatusItem. I saw the demo code Matt Gemmel provided; the code he uses to make the…
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Creating status item - icon shows up, menu doesn't

In a document-based project I am trying to create a status menu. I have a singleton class that builds the status bar, and I am initiating it from an application delegate, as you can see. When I run this, I get no errors, but only an image of the…
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Possible to have multiple buttons in a StatusItem on MacOS?

I'm trying to build a timer app on MacOS that would show the remaining time in the status bar. Wondering if it's possible to show multiple buttons there at once? E.g. show play/pause button, reset button and the time right in the status bar. Or are…
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NSStatusItem icon randomly dissappearing

I'm trying to figure out a weird problem that's happening with my menu bar app. It would run perfectly fine for a couple of hours or even days but would randomly disappear from the menu bar. In activity monitor, it's still running in the background.…
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MacOS-Drag String onto NSStatusItem

I am trying to detect when a string is getting dragged onto the NSStatusItem. Here is the implementation of my code in AppDelegate: func applicationDidFinishLaunching(_ aNotification: Notification) { if let button = statusItem.button { …
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refresh NSMenuItem on click/open of NSStatusItem

I have the following extension where I have a NSMenuItem with it's state being either on or off: extension AppDelegate { func createStatusBarItem() { let sBar = NSStatusBar.system // create status bar item in system…
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Make MAAttachedWindow to behave like NSMenu

I've read a post on this site on how to hide an MAAttachedWindow when the user clicks outside of it. As at this post, I use the MAAttachedWindow together with a statusItem. Hide MAAttachedWindow when clicking outside. It says I should hide the…
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Misaligned NSAttributedString in macOS NSStatusItem's button

I would like to display a two-line NSAttributedString as the button title of the NSStatusItem of my macOS app. However, it seems to move the text up a few pixels and, thus, cut it off. This problem did not occur before macOS Big…
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How to display multiple rows in macos menubar app?

Originally I thought adding new line should work. The problem is, the line height is too big. How can I make it more dense(closer to each other)? There's the following example on git starting line 41. But apple docs say that custom view inside of…
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Cocoa: Auto close a status menu

I hava a status menu on the status bar, and I have some tasks running behind the scene. When one of task is done, assume at the time the menu is being showed (dropped down), I want to make the menu to be not in drop down mode (pretend doing a left…
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`NSStatusItem` created from `main()` doesn't show up on system status bar

I'm trying to make a simple macOS Cocoa application using NSStatusItem to create a clickable icon on the system status bar. However, when I launch my application, I get this warning and the icon doesn't show up: 2020-03-03 14:43:11.564…
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How to give an NSPopover focus when NSStatusItem is clicked?

I am building a macOS menubar app in Swift, using an NSStatusItem, which opens an NSPopover when the NSStatusItem's button is clicked. How can I also give the NSPopover focus? Currently, the user needs to click on the popover to focus it, but I want…
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Detect when a NSStatusItem has been removed via drag and drop

One can set a NSStatusItem's behaviour property to removalAllowed (NSStatusItemBehaviorRemovalAllowed) Then a user can remove the item from the status bar using drag and drop. Example: removing the WiFi status item from the status bar However, I…
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How to update a NSStausItem from another file?

I want to update the button.title property of a NSStausItem in the status bar, when the user klicks a button in my settings view. However, the NSStatusItem currently does not change. AppDelegate: let statusItem =…
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Setting title to custom view for status item cocoa

I've have custom status view which i have set to status item view property. - (id)initWithStatusItem:(NSStatusItem *)statusItem { CGFloat itemWidth = [statusItem length]; CGFloat itemHeight = [[NSStatusBar systemStatusBar] thickness]; …
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