Hi,
On 26.11.2005, at 23:06, Jiva DeVoe wrote:
So I'm sorta hacking on WildMenus this weekend, and have
implemented a primitive clock in the menubar... I'm wondering
what's the best way to get my clock to redraw once a minute?
Obviously the menu code itself gets linked into each application,
so having 20 applications all launching their own little background
timers to update the menubar clock sounds kinda cruddy. What would
be the best way to do this? I imagine some kind of NSNotification
but that also seems cruddy.
(ps: For those who want said functionality - I have been sending
patches to Michael Hanni, the WildMenus maintainer, so look for a
release from him eventually.)
Just for inspiration, how it looks on OS X. Here is a screenshot from
Quartz debug - an application that can show all windows and their
properties:
http://stefan.agentfarms.net/Download/GNUstep/Trash/Quartz%20window%
20list.png
Main menu (horizontal) is window number WID=5 owned by process called
WindowsServer. That means that the menu is not drawn nor owned by any
application, applications just provide menu contents that is passed
to the menu owner - window server.
The status bar is owned by damon/process called system UI server. WID
3a is the status bar (see NSStatusItem class) and WID 39 is the
Spotlight magnifier icon.
Having those two processes separated from applications can simplify
lots of things, including custom menu orientation, addition of shared
menu entries across applications (like apple has apple menu, or menu
with debug or scripting actions)...
Stefan Urbanek
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