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/MacCocoa/NSStatusItem/Name in menu bar


Required plugins for this example: MBS MacCF Plugin, MBS MacCocoa Plugin, MBS MacBase Plugin, MBS Util Plugin, MBS Main Plugin

You find this example project in your Plugins Download as a Xojo project file within the examples folder: /MacCocoa/NSStatusItem/Name in menu bar

This example is the version from Sun, 17th Mar 2012.

Project "Name in menu bar.xojo_binary_project"
MenuBar Menu
MenuItem UntitledMenu3 = ""
MenuItem UntitledMenu2 = "File"
MenuItem FileQuit = "Quit"
MenuItem UntitledMenu0 = "Edit"
MenuItem EditUndo = "Undo"
MenuItem UntitledMenu1 = "-"
MenuItem EditCut = "Cut"
MenuItem EditCopy = "Copy"
MenuItem EditPaste = "Paste"
MenuItem EditClear = "Clear"
MenuItem AppleAboutthisapplication = "About this application..."
End MenuBar
Class App Inherits Application
EventHandler Sub Close() if s<>nil then s.Close DelayMBS 0.2 // wait for events to flush s=nil end if End EventHandler
EventHandler Sub Open() dim f as FolderItem dim period as integer dim d as NSMenuItemMBS pref.Load s=new NSStatusItemMBS // Create statusitem call s.CreateMenu s.HighlightMode=true s.Title="?" // create a menu to attach to the statusitem m=new NSMenuMBS // Create menu items VisitWebsiteMenu=new MyCocoamenuitem VisitWebsiteMenu.CreateMenuItem "Visit website" VisitWebsiteMenu.ID=2 m.AddItem VisitWebsiteMenu d=new NSMenuItemMBS d.CreateSeparator m.AddItem d UpdateMenu=new MyCocoamenuitem UpdateMenu.CreateMenuItem "Update now" UpdateMenu.ID=3 m.AddItem UpdateMenu DisplayMenu=new MyCocoamenuitem DisplayMenu.CreateMenuItem "Short Name" DisplayMenu.id=10 if pref.ShortName then DisplayMenu.State=1 else DisplayMenu.State=0 end if m.AddItem DisplayMenu d=new NSMenuItemMBS d.CreateSeparator m.AddItem d QuitMenu=new MyCocoamenuitem QuitMenu.CreateMenuItem "Quit" QuitMenu.ID=1 m.AddItem QuitMenu // attach menu s.Menu=m update End EventHandler
EventHandler Function UnhandledException(error As RuntimeException) As Boolean quit Return true End EventHandler
Protected Function GetLongName() As string Return systeminformationMBS.username Exception Return "?" End Function
Protected Function GetShortName() As string Return systeminformationMBS.ShortUsername Exception Return "?" End Function
Sub update() if s<>nil then if pref.ShortName then s.Title=NewCFStringMBS(GetShortName) else s.Title=NewCFStringMBS(GetLongName) end if end if Exception End Sub
Property Private DisplayMenu As myCocoamenuitem
Property QuitMenu As MyCocoamenuitem
Property UpdateMenu As mycocoamenuitem
Property VisitWebsiteMenu As mycocoamenuitem
Property Protected m As NSmenumBS
Property Protected s As NSStatusItemMBS
End Class
Class MyCocoamenuitem Inherits NSMenuItemMBS
EventHandler Sub Action() Select case id case 1 quit case 2 ShowURL "http://www.monkeybreadsoftware.de" case 3 app.update case 10 pref.ShortName=not pref.ShortName if pref.ShortName then me.State=1 else me.State=0 end if app.update end Select End EventHandler
Property ID As integer
End Class
Module Pref
Protected Sub Load() dim p as CFPreferencesMBS dim o as CFObjectMBS dim b as CFBooleanMBS p=new CFPreferencesMBS o=p.CopyAppValue(NewCFStringMBS("ShortName"),p.kCFPreferencesCurrentApplication) if o isa CFBooleanMBS then b=CFBooleanMBS(o) if b<>nil then myShortName= b.Value end if end if Exception End Sub
Private Sub Save(key as CFStringMBS, value as CFObjectMBS) dim p as CFPreferencesMBS p=new CFPreferencesMBS p.SetAppValue key,value,p.kCFPreferencesCurrentApplication if p.AppSynchronize(p.kCFPreferencesCurrentApplication) then end if End Sub
Protected Function ShortName() As boolean Return myShortName End Function
Protected Sub ShortName(assigns b as boolean) dim key as CFStringMBS dim value as CFObjectMBS myShortName=b key=NewCFStringMBS("ShortName") value=NewCFBooleanMBS(b) Save key,value End Sub
Property Private myShortName As boolean
End Module
End Project

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