Dean, what OS are you using? (From memory) the behavior is different between 10.4, 10.5, and 10.6, with 10.5 and 10.6 working normally, and in one case LSUIElement and LSBackgroundOnly work differently...
On Jun 16, 2011, at 6:42 AM, Dean Davis wrote: > I have an app that uses normal windows as well as a status item. > My users have requested a feature that would make the dock icon > disappear leaving only the windows and status item. > To do this I have set my apps info.plist key of "LSUIElement" to the value of > 1. > This makes it so that my app doesn't show the application icon or > application menu. But the status item and windows still show and > respond to user input. > At the beginning of the program I check a user preference to see if > the user wants this behavior. If they don't (i.e. WANT the dock icon") > then I run this code... > > ' Do I need to unhide the app > If GlobalStuff.HideApplicationIcon = False then > > // get front process > dim c as new ProcessMBS > c.GetFrontProcess > > // get our process > dim p as new ProcessMBS > p.GetCurrentProcess > > // change process > call p.TransformToForegroundApplication > > // switch to old app > c.FrontProcess=True > > // let the system switch > DelayMBS 0.1 > > // switch to our app > p.FrontProcess=True > app.MenuBar = menu > end if > > This makes the dock icon appear but I do not get a menu bar. > > Running in debug I do get the menu. It's only on the compiled app that > I cannot get the menu. > > Anyone else see this? > Can anyone duplicate this? > Any workaround suggestions? > > Dean Davis > _______________________________________________ > Mbsplugins_monkeybreadsoftware.info mailing list > [email protected] > https://ml01.ispgateway.de/mailman/listinfo/mbsplugins_monkeybreadsoftware.info _______________________________________________ Mbsplugins_monkeybreadsoftware.info mailing list [email protected] https://ml01.ispgateway.de/mailman/listinfo/mbsplugins_monkeybreadsoftware.info
