I am writing a small NSStatusItem which displays a NSString in the menu bar and supplies a series of NSMenuItems. As the text to be displayed is occasionally longer than would be permitted on the Menu Bar I would like to animate the text in a Stock Ticker style scrolling animation. Much like you'd see in iTunes when a song is too long to be displayed or how the modem connect NSStatusItem will scroll the words "dialing... authentication...". I tried to simply write text to the menu bar using a Timer writing one character at a time, but the result isn't smooth and due to spacing in between letters can be variable in how much it moves each iteration.
I suspect that a custom NSView is set to the NSStatusItem, but I am at a complete loss as to how to pull this off. Any examples of how to: 1. Properly animate the text. 2. Attach the resulting animation to the menu bar would be greatly appreciated. I have googled around extensively and have yet to find a solid example or clue. Thank you, Erik Benoist_______________________________________________ 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
