Menu Icons?

[Nonsanity]

Ah, you are right. I've never enabled the iChat status menu to notice. I
don't spend a lot of time in XCode, except to set things up for LC to make
iOS apps. And I don't have any of the others.

It's still rare, but if Apple is doing it... :)

I seem to recall back in the pre-OS X days that a lot of the additional menu
options like icons was done with special text in the menu item's name. Maybe
its still possible to add icons that way, though I'm not sure how you'd
reference a graphic that way.

 ~ Chris Innanen
 ~ Nonsanity


On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 5:28 PM, Trevor DeVore <lists at mangomultimedia.com>wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 10:24 AM, Nonsanity <form at nonsanity.com> wrote:
>
> > But these OS X days, I've never once seen an icon in a menu. Is it even
> > possible now? If it is, I'd advise against it... It's definitely not
> > standard UI practice.
> >
>
> Icons in UI menus are not all that uncommon on OS X. I picked a couple of
> apps at random and found menu icons in use:
>
> iChat (status menu)
> OmniGraffle (tool selection menu)
> LittleSnapper (publishing menu)
> Adium (status menu)
> XCode (documentation navigation menu)
>
> In LiveCode we have to roll our own menus using stacks. You end up having
> to
> recreate highlights, rollovers, etc. It would be really nice to be able to
> display the icons in a standard OS menu.
>
> --
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