用户通知在Mac上打开其他NSStatusItem菜单

Question

I'm writing a mac app that sits in the menu bar and presents the user with a NSPanel instance when they click the status item. I want to hide the window whenever another status item's menu is opened. Right now, my panel stays open; it looks like this:

I see other applications like mine close when another status item opens its menu, so I'm wonder which notification they're getting to know to disappear. I've looked into NSWindowDelegate and NSApplicationDelegate , but I don't see any notifications being generated.

Have any suggestions?

Answer 1

I figured it out! In the awakeFromNib , I was setting the properties of my NSPanel instance. I was using the following:

[panel setStyleMask:panel.styleMask ^ NSTitledWindowMask];

Switching it to the following:

[panel setStyleMask:(panel.styleMask ^ NSTitledWindowMask ^ NSNonactivatingPanelMask)];

Did the trick. I figured it out after reading Neil Inglis' blog post on using MAAttachedWindow in a similar way.