Question

I’m trying to develop an application in Xcode 4.1. I would like to create an application located in the menu bar, like described in this tutorial:
http://cocoatutorial.grapewave.com/2010/01/creating-a-status-bar-application/

But instead of showing a standard Menu when clicking, I would like to show a more graphical UI with some text fields, buttons, etc. like they do in Fantastical:
http://flexibits.com/fantastical

I hope someone can tell me, how I can do.

Answer 1

Here’s the Status Bar Programming Topics guide.

1. Make an NSStatusItem. Set the item’s view to a custom view that you create. This view will appear in the status bar and receive mouse clicks.

2. Make your custom view handle a mouse click by presenting a window with your custom UI.