Could anyone help me out as,how to place an app icon in title bar in Mac application.I want to place the app icon in top-left corner in title-bar like in windows application.Do we have any constrains in doing so...?
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Apple's own apps such as Reminders show Badge count even if they are not running or after quitting them
Other apps (some even with Helper apps) show badge when they are running, but it disappears as soon as you quit the application
is there a way, user side, or programming side, we can do to always show this badge, even when the app is not running?
I searched a lot in Google, didn't find anything about "always" showing this badge, maybe "badge count" is the wrong keyword
Yes, Create dock Tile Plug-in.
Starting in OS X v10.6, you can customize an application’s Dock tile
icon and menu when the application is not running.
When your application needs to customize the Dock tile, it manipulates the NSDockTile object that was provided to the initial call to the setDockTile: method.
To dynamically change the application's Dock icon, you can draw a Dock icon using a custom view. See Using a Custom View to Draw a Dock Icon.
To add text to a Dock icon, you can apply a badge label. See Changing the Text of a Badge Label.
What is the app's icon that appears to the right of the menu bar called?(like the twitter one)
When you press it, it's usually a drop down menu..
I want to implement a similar one in my mac app.. any help where can i start?
The menu icon is a status item, represented by the NSStatusItem class. See the question How to create a menubar application for Mac and its answers for more info.
I'm building an Adobe AIR 2.5 app that I have working the way I want in Windows in that you can minimize it to the system tray and no icon shows up in the tab order or task bar. What I'm wondering is, can you replicate this in OS X? I want there to be a menu bar extra item to show in the upper right hand corner and also be able to hide it from the Dock when running. I haven't been able find any resources and any tips would be greatly appreciated.
I do not think what you want is possible.
https://bugbase.adobe.com/index.cfm?event=bug&id=2875209
Maybe in AIR 3.0. We'll see.
I have an application I'd like to build that starts when you start the mac and will appear in the dock.
I have some experience with Objective-C and iPhone dev but none with Mac dev, I'm also a PC user normally so I'm not au fait with the norms of Mac usage. Any guidance here is appreciated.
How do you get an application to autostart?
*edit Can you run an app in the status bar? (with the clock etc) or do apps only run in the dock?
To write a program in the Status Bar check out this great tutorial.
To get an application to auto start on login, look for information on launch daemon or just make your application installer to place an entry on /Library/StartupItems.
About the dock: usually, user controls what's on his/her dock. When your UI application is running, it will usually be in the dock. If you want the icon to stick there permanently, you will need the user dragging the icon from the Finder to the dock, or, right-click on the dock icon while is running in select Options->Keep In Dock menu option.
I'm new to programming desktop applications for Mac (though a have a small experience with programming for IPhone).
Suppose I create a new Cocoa project in XCode.
This application does nothing just shows its window. I click on the cross in the red circle and my app minimizes to the dock and it has a blue dot on its icon showing that it's running.
Why when I click on its dock icon it doesnt restore? The same thing happens with Java swing application created by Xcode's "new project" wizard.
What should add to an application so that it would restore itself when I click on its icon in the dock?
thanks
Cross in the red circle closes the window, it does not minimize it to the dock. You should use minus sign in the yellow circle to minimize the window to the dock.
You should check dock programming guide at developer.apple.com to see how you can restore the window (it should include something like [window makeKeyAndOrderFront] when user clicks on the dock icon. You should be able to find that information in aforementioned guide.