How to display a balloon message in the status bar on Mac OS X

Question

Apple has an NSStatusItem for managing a status bar item. But it does not have an API to display an air message from the status bar.

I know Java has TrayIcon.displayMessage() .

Does anyone know how to implement this post using Xcode C / C ++?

Answer 1

No, ball-style messages are not part of the standard OS X user interface. Many of the similar features use third-party Growl tools.

Answer 2

This may be what you are looking for: http://mattgemmell.com/2008/03/04/using-maattachedwindow-with-an-nsstatusitem