macOS Creating a Menu Bar item on the right side.

[Garrett]

How would you start to do this? Do you need to create a bundle? I have searched for NSMenu's in the Menu Bar and nothing has came up for your own. 😱 Anything in the right direction would be nice!

 

[Manty]

If you mean the status bar icon you must add:

<key>LSUIElement</key>
<true/>

to your Info.plist file to make it "dockless", then just add a status item programmatically:

statusItem = [[NSStatusBar systemStatusBar] statusItemWithLength:30];
[statusItem setTarget:self];
[statusItem setAction:@selector(showMenu)];
[statusItem setHighlightMode:YES];
[self setStatusItem:statusItem withValue:@"MenuTitle" andImage:nil];
[statusItem retain];

Hope that helps,
Manty

 

[timisted]

There is some Apple Documentation at:

http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/StatusBar/StatusBar.html

 

[Garrett]

http://www.mactech.com/articles/mactech/Vol.22/22.02/Menulet/

Best resource! Has multiple versions, etc.

Thanks all for your help! 🙄