If you are interested in looking at another program to see how their menu location is implemented, take a look at WeatherPop. I am using version 2.6.1 and it is appearing in the menu bar as well.
Just downloaded WeatherPop and poked around in its resources. WeatherPop does something pretty interesting. Like NUDC, looks like their menu is implemented using MenuExtraEnabler. But if MEE isn't working, they fall back to using an NSStatusItem, which has a number of limitations vs a menu extra (can't drag it; it always appears at the left of the list; is implemented as part of an app rather than as a menu bundle loaded into the System UI Server). For info, see: http://weatherpop.com/?page_id=3#question87
Thanks for the heads up!
_________________________ John Wallace Now X Tech Lead President, Now Software, Inc.
Two others that work under Leopard are ABmenu (version 2.0, made in 2004!) and ClamXav. Even if it isn't a fully featured menu extra, it would be great if you could issue a quick fix.
Very strange but I have the Quick Contact and QuickDay menus working in Leopard. Found I had to turn the options off in the preferences first, close preferences and then go back in and turn on.
Quickday is fine, but quickcontact menu is slightly offset upwards...
Very strange but I have the Quick Contact and QuickDay menus working in Leopard. Found I had to turn the options off in the preferences first, close preferences and then go back in and turn on.
Quickday is fine, but quickcontact menu is slightly offset upwards...
For me QuickDay says: "Still gathering menu contents. Please try again." This doesn't resolve.
Quick Contact works as you stated with icon slightly raised upward
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Originally Posted By: "John Wallace"
Originally Posted By: "smr2112"
I would at least like to know if the basic application connects OK and syncs with a server from a client running Leopard and Now Contact 5.3.1
We'll be doing further testing with the released version of Leopard in the days ahead. Apple does not seed developers with the final release, and they tend to make a lot of changes in the weeks leading up to a release. If anyone finds bugs, please report them to [url=mailto:support@nowsoftware.com]mailto:support@nowsoftware.com[/url].
Thanks, I have let support know but for those reading this blog; I'm running NUTD 5.3.1 on a macbook 2Gig C2D and have just installed Leopard.
Very sad to find out QuickContact doesn't work and since the icons also don't appear in the menu bar any more it means keeping quick contact open all the time to access numbers.
Now contact talks to the server running on the same machine, But Now up to date won't recognise it's server.
For a client machine running 10.5, I can confirm that the application at least ran and connected to a server on 10.4.x. It was able to sync and exchange contacts. No menus as mentioned here.
If anybody is able to get the server running under Leopard, please let us know.
I didn't test anything else (printing, etc.) and this was with Now Contact 5.3.1
Did either of you have to reinstall in Leopard to get these menu items showing?
No, Just go into the Preferences in each NUD and NC and toggle the check mark for the QD or QC icon to display in the menubar.
HOWEVER, they are not in the menu bar when you start up or re-boot. They need to be reactivated using this procedure each day. But, like I said Quick Day shows up but does not work. Quick Contact is operational though.
Also, want to note I am running on a PPC 1.67 MHZ PowerBook platform
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