Hi Simon, You can certainly add items to a dock menu in OS X using Python. For more info on the dock menu, see here:
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Carbon/Conceptual/ customizing_docktile/index.html?http://developer.apple.com/ documentation/Carbon/Conceptual/customizing_docktile/concepts/ chapter_2_section_3.html If you are just starting out with OS X, check out the PyObjC website, to learn how to map the Objective-C calls documented by Apple into Python calls. http://pyobjc.sourceforge.net/ Note that doc menus are only active while an application is running. If you want a menu which is persistent without needing the UI of an application, take a look at the Apple docs for NSStatusBar, which is the area in the menu bar between an application's Help menu and the Spotlight icon (in Tiger, anyway). I posted a simplistic example to this list a while back. http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Reference/ ApplicationKit/ObjC_classic/Classes/NSStatusBar.html http://mail.python.org/pipermail/pythonmac-sig/2005-April/013733.html Apple itself doesn't use NSStatusItem, relying instead on something called Menu Extras, which are more reliable and powerful (they can be rearranged by dragging, for instance). Apple doesn't want third party developers to use this API (which is undocumented and has been known to change between releases), but if you'd like to try anyway, there is documentation here: http://cocoadevcentral.com/articles/000078.php Best wishes! --Dethe When laws are outlawed, only outlaws will have laws. _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
