RHStatusItemView

An NSStatusItem hosted view that supports handling both left and right click actions, menus and showing an image / alternateImage pair.

Usage Example

#import "RHStatusItemView.h"

@property (retain) IBOutlet NSMenu *statusMenu; //Created in MainMenu.nib 

//create the status item
NSStatusItem *statusItem = [[NSStatusBar systemStatusBar] statusItemWithLength:24];
[statusItem setHighlightMode:YES];

//create our custom view to be hosted inside the status item
RHStatusItemView *statusView = [[[RHStatusItemView alloc] initWithStatusBarItem:statusItem] autorelease];

[statusItem setView:statusView];

[statusView setToolTip:@"AppName"];        
[statusView setMenu:statusMenu];

[statusView setImage:[NSImage imageNamed:@"MenuIcon"]];
[statusView setAlternateImage:[NSImage imageNamed:@"MenuIconSelected"]];

RHStatusItemView Interface

@interface RHStatusItemView : NSControl {
}

@property (nonatomic, assign) NSStatusItem *statusItem; //should never be nil

@property (nonatomic, retain) NSImage *image;
@property (nonatomic, retain) NSImage *alternateImage; 

@property (nonatomic, retain) id target;
@property (nonatomic, assign) SEL action;       //if no action specified, we will try and pop up menu if set.
@property (nonatomic, assign) SEL rightAction;  //if no rightAction specified, we will try and pop up, in order rightMenu, menu.

@property (nonatomic, retain) NSMenu *menu;
@property (nonatomic, retain) NSMenu *rightMenu;

-(id)initWithStatusBarItem:(NSStatusItem*)statusItem; //designated initializer

-(void)popUpMenu; //pops up the currently stored menu
-(void)popUpRightMenu; //if right menu is set, pops up right menu
-(void)popUpMenu:(NSMenu*)menu; //pops up the passed menu

@end

Licence

Released under the Modified BSD License. (Attribution Required)

RHStatusItemView

Copyright (c) 2012 Richard Heard. All rights reserved.

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Version Support

This Framework code compiles and has been tested on OS X 10.7 - 10.8