How to display my application icon (programmatically) in the upper right corner of the Mac OS X menu bar

Question

I know that Skype does this - there is a special icon there. And then when the user clicks on the icon, a dropdown menu will appear ...

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tom May 25 '11 at 22:53

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NSStatusItem is responsible for this.

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Barry wark May 25, '11 at 22:58

Kristopher johnson · Accepted Answer · 2011-05-25T22:57:03+0000

See docs for status bar and NSStatusItem . You can also find tutorials and sample code using googling for NSStatusItem.