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This is a super simple skeleton project demonstrating:

1. How to make a Mac OS X menubar app, with a status bar item and a popover.
2. How to make the menu bar item and popover look decent with both light and dark themes in Yosemite and above (hint: use template images and system colors; see my answer to [this stackoverflow question] (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/30901120/how-to-make-a-menubar-app-look-good-with-dark-mode-in-yosemite/30908871?noredirect=1#comment49889381_30908871)).

Because someone was asking. If you find it useful, awesome.

AppDelegate adds an NSStatusItem to the menu bar, and sets its view to an instance of StatusItemView, which basically just has an NSImageView to draw something in the menu bar. StatusItemView also has a target/action, which it sends when it's clicked on.

AppDelegate also instantiates a MainViewController, which shows itself in aN NSPopover.

All this stuff is basically a very cut down version of the UI used for one of my apps, TaskLog.

I'm Zacharias Pasternack, lead developer for Fat Apps, LLC. You can check out my blog, or follow me on Twitter or App.net.

You bet. Do whatever you want with it. If you find issues, please let me know. If you make it better, please let me know.

The code is available under a Modified BSD License. See the LICENSE file for more info.