On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 5:28 PM, Jens Alfke <j...@mooseyard.com> wrote:
> > On Mar 4, 2010, at 12:42 AM, fabian wrote: > > > Right. But why should it matter? The system status bar is not in the nib. > Just curious about what is going on behind the scenes... > > The status bar is in the menu bar, and the menu bar is in the same nib as > your app controller. The status bar probably initializes itself in an > -awakeFromNib method. Whether that method runs before or after your > -awakeFromNib method is completely unpredictable. > > > I can see why it's a bad thing in theory, but I haven't had any problems > with this approach. > > Are you prepared to have your app crash and burn on launch for every user > that installs some upcoming OS revision (perhaps even a minor update)? I'm > serious; this happens. Doing things that shouldn't work, just because they > do work at the moment, is asking for trouble since the underlying behavior > of the system frameworks can change in the future. > > (This is especially painful if you're not on the expen$ive Apple developer > plans that get you access to OS betas, because that means you won't get a > chance to find any of these crashes before your customers do. Instead you > find yourself frantically debugging on the day the new OS comes out, while > your mailbox fills up with crash reports and complaints.) > > > Anyway, back to subject. Perhaps a better approach than using timers, > guesswork and voodoo, would be to check the validity of the frame rect and, > if it's zero or garbage, make my own rectangle. > > Um, no. Check whether the status bar is nil before you ask for its frame, > instead of working around the aftermath of calling a struct accessor on nil. > But doing this is still a hack, for the reason I described above. It's > pretty clear that you shouldn't be doing anything with NSStatusBar in an > -awakeFromNib method in the main nib. > > —Jens But this is not in -awakeFromNib. That's the whole problem :) It's in -applicationDidFinishLaunching. Which works great on all systems (as far as I know), except for on 10.5.8 where NSStatusBar is still nil at this point. That's what I'm trying to find a work-around for. _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
