Objective-C: How to create a Menu with custom UI?

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I'm trying to develop an application in Xcode 4.1. I would like to create an application located in the menu bar, like described in this tutorial: http://cocoatutorial.grapewave.com/2010/01/creating-a-status-bar-application/

But instead of showing a standard Menu when clicking, I would like to show a more graphical UI with some text fields, buttons, etc. like they do in Fantastical: http://flexibits.com/fantastical

I hope someone can tell me, how I can do.

rob mayoff · Accepted Answer · 2011-11-10 19:04:42Z

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Here's the Status Bar Programming Topics guide.

Make an NSStatusItem. Set the item's view to a custom view that you create. This view will appear in the status bar and receive mouse clicks.
Make your custom view handle a mouse click by presenting a window with your custom UI.

answered Nov 10, 2011 at 19:04

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Mike C. · Accepted Answer · 2011-12-29 03:08:05Z

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It's not necessary to use a custom view. All you have to do is set the status item's target & action to your method which shows the window:

[self.statusItem setTarget:self];
[self.statusItem setAction:@selector(ShowOrHideWindow:)];

answered Dec 29, 2011 at 3:08

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