[Qt] Good progress on TBitmap

Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho felipemonteiro.carvalho at gmail.com
Mon Jan 29 11:37:33 CET 2007


On 1/29/07, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
<felipemonteiro.carvalho at gmail.com> wrote:
> Ummm ... I think I read somewhere on Apple docs that the Menu extra
> should only be used by Apple software or something like this ...

I found:

http://developer.apple.com/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/OSXHIGuidelines/XHIGMenus/chapter_16_section_4.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP30000356-TPXREF103

On the very bottom:

Menu Bar Extras

Reserved for use by Apple, the right side of the menu bar may contain
items that provide feedback on and access to certain hardware or
network settings. Menu bar extras display some type of status in the
menu bar and have a menu to change settings. The icon for the battery
strength indicator, for example, dynamically displays the current
state of the battery for a portable computer, and the menu has common
battery settings. Users can display or hide a menu bar extra in the
appropriate preferences pane.

Important: Don't create your own menu bar extras. Use the Dock menu
functions to open a menu from your application's icon in the Dock.

If there is not enough room in the menu bar to display all menus, menu
bar extras are removed automatically by Mac OS X to make room for
application menus, which take precedence. Because of this, and because
users can choose to hide menu bar extras, you should not rely on their
presence.

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Maybe it´s possible to create a menu extra, but apple won´t be happy =)

-- 
Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho



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