NSStatusItem disappears

Targets macOS
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I’m using MacOSLib to create a StatusItem for my app. Some users are reporting that the StatusItem disappears randomly. The app itself is still open. I haven’t experienced this myself. How do I make sure that the StatusItem stays in the menubar?

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This might be what the users are experiencing: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8873418/nsstatusitem-appears-briefly-on-launch-but-promptly-disappears

How to retain NSStatusItem it using MacOSLib?

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Here is my way to do NSStatusItem.
It is without MacOSLib, but similar

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myStatusItem.Retain    //?
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This sometimes happens, especially on a smaller screen. If a user has an app with a lot of menus and/or a lot of other NSStatusItems, OS X will start quietly hiding StatusItems to fit. They return whenever there is enough room. I’ve never found a way to detect this behavior in code, much to my frustration. But maybe this is what your users are seeing.

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I actually have a feature request for an AppleEvent notification to notify an application when it’s statusitem has been hidden. I know you can’t see them, but if you’re an active Apple Developer, you could create another RADAR report and reference radr://9885228.

BTW - I requested this in Aug of 2011 and it isn’t even marked in Apple’s system as reviewed.

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“You must use the value returned by this function”

I’ll try

Call StatusItem.Retain

and see what happens.