Changing Size of Menubar Text? (NSStatusItemMBS)

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So, you can easily create a menubar icon and text using NSStatusItemMBS using the handy MBSPlugins thanks to Christian

// Show text in the menubar
s=new NSStatusItemMBS

call s.CreateMenu
s.Title="Hello World"

How would you change the size of the text?

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I would try s.attributedTitle with an attributed string where you’ve set the size.

Edit: Just found where I do this in one of my apps (message and nsColor are parameters)

dim a as NSAttributedStringMBS = NSAttributedStringMBS.attributedStringWithString(message)
dim t as NSMutableAttributedStringMBS = a.mutableCopy

t.addAttribute(NSAttributedStringMBS.NSFontAttributeName,NSFontMBS.systemFontOfSize(14.0),new NSRangeMBS(0,t.length))
if nsColor <> nil then t.addAttribute(NSAttributedStringMBS.NSForegroundColorAttributeName,nsColor,new NSRangeMBS(0,t.length))

s.attributedTitle = t
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Thanks Jared. That’s great!

For clarity for anyone else, here’s the complete code (without colour). s is a property of type NSStatusItemMBS

// Show text in the menubar
s=New NSStatusItemMBS

Call s.CreateMenu

Dim a As NSAttributedStringMBS = NSAttributedStringMBS.attributedStringWithString("Hello world!")
Dim t As NSMutableAttributedStringMBS = a.mutableCopy

t.addAttribute(NSAttributedStringMBS.NSFontAttributeName,NSFontMBS.systemFontOfSize(12.0),New NSRangeMBS(0,t.length))

s.attributedTitle = t