On Oct 10, 2011, at 7:34 AM, Jerry Krinock wrote: > > On 2011 Oct 10, at 02:03, Martin Hewitson wrote: > >> I haven't been following this thread closely, so I may be talking about the >> wrong thing here, but I just noticed I can cycle through the status items, >> and some of them (e.g. istat menus and apple items) are selectable with >> ctrl-f8 then arrow keys, and some not (e.g. dropbox). So it seems like it's >> possible, in principle. Don't know if that helps. > > Thank you, Martin. I have 7 non-Apple Status Items on my Mac account, and > none of them are accessible via the F8 key. However, you are correct. I > just installed iStat Menus from bjango.com and, indeed, its Status Items > *are* accessible via F8. Furthermore, instead of being appended to the left, > they take priority over all the other non-Apple Status Items. The right half > of my menu bar looks like this: > > | Other Non-Apple Items | iStat Menu Items | Apple Items > > Apparently, bjango has figured out a trick that no one else has. I wonder if > it's "legal”?
It looks like they’re just using the private NSMenuExtra API. They’re probably using code injection to patch SystemUIServer to get around Apple’s protection to do so. Not something I’d recommend. Charles_______________________________________________ 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
