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Fabrizio Demaria
Fabrizio Demaria

Reputation: 473

NSStatusItem reordering along Status Bar

I am trying to add a functionality to my status bar app for Mac OS X. I would like to be able to move my item along the bar, as you can do for the native OS tools like the Bluetooth or the WiFi icon.

Cheers

Upvotes: 1

Views: 503

Answers (3)

Marc Edwards
Marc Edwards

Reputation: 1328

Update for macOS Sierra: Apple improved NSStatusItem. Items can now be reordered by ⌘-dragging. This works for all Apple’s menu items and all third party apps.

Pretty much all the reasons you could ever want to use NSMenuExtra have been removed now, which is great. So, the answer now is to just use NSStatusItem. No further action is required.

Upvotes: 2

Renfei Song
Renfei Song

Reputation: 2960

What you are looking for is NSMenuExtra and not NSMenuItem.

Apple uses NSMenuExtra for the system menu icons including Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. Although it looks similar to the regular NSMenuItem, NSMenuExtra has some special features, notably to keep their relative order after rebooting, and Command-Draggable by user.

Unfortunately, NSMenuExtra is totally undocumented, so if you are targeting the Mac App Store, it's better for you to stick with the standard NSMenuItem. Otherwise, there is a bunch of tutorials about how to create an NSMenuExtra. For example, here are two of them:

Upvotes: 1

Nickolay Olshevsky
Nickolay Olshevsky

Reputation: 14160

Unfortunately there is no 'good' way to do that, however you can check this question for the hack which can do that:

How to drag NSStatusItems

Upvotes: 0

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