macOS Set NSStatusBar titel from other class?

[samirah]

Im trying to change the titel in my NSStatusBar from a different class, my preferences class..

In my ManagerClass.m & .h i have declared

- (NSStatusItem *)statusItem
{ return statusItem; }

I then import my ManagerClass.h in my preferences.m

then inside preferences.m i try to execute:

ManagerClass *someInstanceToIt = [[ManagerClass alloc] init];
[(NSStatusItem *)[someInstanceToIt statusItem] setTitle:@"New Title"];

But it seems that statusItem is never being passed to the preferences.m file, if i do a test with an if i can see that statusItem is empty..

Any ideas ?

 

[jiminaus]

Where is statusItem in ManagerClass being set?

Do you really want to alloc/init a new instance of ManagerClass inside a method of Preferences? Or are you rather wanting to reference an already existing instance of ManagerClass created elsewhere?

What are you type-casting the result of [someInstanceToIt statusItem]? This is unnecessary because statusItem is already declared to return type NSStatusItem *.