geerlingguy / geerlingguy/Visibility
Make app a service/menu bar icon?
- Dominant language
- Objective-C
- Stars
- 8
- Forks
- 2
- PR merge metrics
- No merged PRs in 30d
Description
Add a feature like Rivet, Dropbox, Xmarks for Safari, etc. - a menu bar icon that has the options for toggling file visibility.
Use NSStatusBar or NSStatusItem:
http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/cocoa/reference/ApplicationKit/Classes/NSStatusBar_Class/Reference/Reference.html
http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/cocoa/Conceptual/StatusBar/Tasks/creatingitems.html%23//apple_ref/doc/uid/20000996-BBCDAGHB
http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/cocoa/Reference/ApplicationKit/Classes/NSStatusItem_Class/Reference/Reference.html%23//apple_ref/doc/uid/20000248
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Research direction
Start with the NSStatusBar and NSStatusItem entry points in the linked Cocoa documentation. Determine how a menu bar item should expose the app's file-visibility toggles, then verify that the resulting service/menu bar icon can toggle file visibility as requested.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- macos, objective-c
- Domain
- desktop
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100