I was wondering if anyone has figured out how to develop "menu-let"
applications using Delphi XE6 or XE7?
By "Menu-let" I am referring to the apps that appear in the system menu bar
on the right
(i.e Dropbox, WiFi, Date/Time, etc) reside. Clicking on them brings up a
context menu or opens a windowed app.
I am writing a cross platform app that needs to appear as a "Menulet" on
OSX and as a TrayIcon app on Windows 32/64.
Using the TNSStatusBar class in Macapi.AppKit unit.
The following code is quick copy/paste:
TFMXTrayItem = class(TOCLocal)
private
NSStatItem : NSStatusItem;
public
constructor Create;
destructor Destroy; override;
function GetObjectiveCClass: PTypeInfo; override;
procedure call_mymethod; cdecl;
end;
constructor TFMXTrayItem.Create;
var
NSContMenu : NSMenu;
NSContItem : NSMenuItem;
NSStatBar : NSStatusBar;
NSImg : NSImage;
AppBundle : NSBundle;
NSpImg: Pointer;
Path: String;
begin
inherited Create;
NSStatBar := TNSStatusBar.Create;
NSStatBar := TNSStatusBar.Wrap(TNSStatusBar.OCClass.systemStatusBar);
NSStatItem:= NSStatBar.statusItemWithLength(NSVariableStatusItemLength);
NSStatItem.setTarget(GetObjectID);
// Create context menu
NSContMenu := TNSMenu.Create;
NSContMenu := TNSMenu.Wrap(NSContMenu.initWithTitle(StrToNSStr('The
caption')));
NSContItem:=TNSMenuItem.Create;
NSContItem:=TNSMenuItem.Wrap(NSContItem.initWithTitle(StrToNSStr('1. menu
item'),sel_getUid(PAnsiChar('call_mymethod')),StrToNSStr('')));
NSContItem.setTarget(GetObjectID);
NSContMenu.addItem(NSContItem);
NSContItem.release;
// Add menu
NSStatItem.retain;
NSStatItem.setHighlightMode(true);
NSStatItem.setMenu(NSContMenu);
NSContMenu.release;
// Get path to dir
AppBundle := TNSBundle.Wrap(TNSBundle.OCClass.mainBundle);
Path:=AppBundle.bundlePath.UTF8String+'/Contents/yourimage16x16.png';
NSpImg := TNSImage.Alloc.initWithContentsOfFile(StrToNSStr(Path));
// Create Icon
NSImg := TNSImage.Create;
NSImg := TNSImage.Wrap(NSpImg);
NSStatItem.setImage(NSImg);
NSImg.release;
end;
destructor TFMXTrayItem.Destroy;
begin
NSStatItem.release;
inherited;
end;
function TFMXTrayItem.GetObjectiveCClass: PTypeInfo;
begin
Result :=TypeInfo(IFMXTrayItem);
end;
procedure TFMXTrayItem.call_properties;
begin
// your event code of the menu item
end;
Ronald
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