Matt Legend Gemmell Modesty is Lying

Might be a nice clean way to show Twitter updates.

The code is nice and clean but one thing I was wondering about is the ability to command click and move the status item along the menubar. To be able to insert it into a different location. Is this easily added?

that looks familiar

great post matt, im glad you helped me with this, I really appreciated it!

Hey, Matt…a question about this spread to the CocoaDev forums and I’d like to point out that you don’t have to put in a custom view. NSStatusItem supports target/action messages that fire when you click on the status item view. You would have to move the center-finding code around but it would eliminate the pretty-much-pointless custom view.

Of course, if the project already uses a custom view then this is no worse.

Jordy/Jediknil: I’ve been working on a project using this custom window of Matts and I don’t think you can ditch the custom view. I can’t see another way to find the position of the NSStatusItem to be able to place the MAAttachedWindow properly.

Am I missing something?

Sorry I should have mentioned that I’m trying to make the MAAttachedWindow appear periodically - not on a mouse event - kinda like growl i guess, but the arrow needs to be pointing at my NSStatusItem. Still possibly without the custom view??

I’ve been playing around with the NSStatusItem and developed a hack for accessing the StatusItem location.

@interface NSStatusItem (hack)
- (NSRect)hackFrame;
@end

@implementation NSStatusItem (hack)
- (NSRect)hackFrame
{
return [_fWindow frame];
}
@end

This simply sub classes the NSStatusItem and add a new method “hackFrame”. Then in your code you simple call:

NSRect itemRect = [statusItem hackFrame];

statusItem being your object class name. The position of your NSStatusItem is returned in the NSRect.

I’ve been using this to use the genie effect and make my views warp in and out of the status item.

Philip, you have not sub classed NSStatusItem, you’ve added an extension to the already defined class.

With some slight modifications to MAAttachedWindow, by making the following methods public.
- (void)_updateGeometry;
- (MAWindowPosition)_bestSideForAutomaticPosition;
and making the following variables protected
@protected
NSPoint _point;
MAWindowPosition _side;

I extended MAAttached window and am passing it a point when the user clicks on the menuItem.

@implementation PPAttachedWindow

-(void)resetClickPoint:(NSPoint)latestPoint {
_point = latestPoint;

//Get the screen with the menubar
NSScreen* menuBarScreen = [[NSScreen screens] objectAtIndex:0];
_point.y = [menuBarScreen frame].size.height + [menuBarScreen frame].origin.y - 20;

if (_side == MAPositionAutomatic) {
_side = [super _bestSideForAutomaticPosition];
}

[super _updateGeometry];
}

The source kode will be available when I release the next version of ogsPing.

M@