How to create a Menubar application for Mac

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MacMac picture MacMac · Aug 4, 2010 · Viewed 87.6k times · Source

EDIT: This is a nice ready-made menubar application here (github source) by this answer.

I was wondering how to make a menubar application, what are the requirements for that to do so?

I saw a simple application for the menubar was to open links using your browser, I want to create something similar to that.

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This is the application I like to make similar.

Answer

SteamTrout picture SteamTrout · Aug 4, 2010

NSStatusItem is what you are looking for. Also add LSUIElement with string value of 1 to your Info.plist to hide it from Dock.

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