SystemStatusBar statusItem title being cut short on OS X - swift

Question

I am trying to display an OS X application statusItem in the System Status Bar and am having success with everything except the fact that the title is being cut off. I am initializing everything like so:
let statusItem = NSStatusBar.systemStatusBar().statusItemWithLength(-1)
func applicationDidFinishLaunching(aNotification: NSNotification) {
let icon = NSImage(named: "statusIcon")
icon?.template = true
statusItem.image = icon
statusItem.menu = statusMenu
statusItem.title = "This is a test title"
}
The problem is the statusItem.title is appearing like so:
As you can see the application next to mine (iStatMenuBar) is cutting off the title to my application (or something similar is happening)
If I comment out the icon for the statusItem, it works and shows the entire title but when I re-add the icon it cuts off again. Is there a way for the two (icon and title) to co exist? I have reviewed some Apple docs and may have missed a critical piece which explains this.
Thanks guys.

Answer 1

One option would be to assign a custom view to your statusBarItem and within that view's class override drawRect(dirtyRect: NSRect) e.g.
private var icon:StatusMenuView?
let bar = NSStatusBar.systemStatusBar()
item = bar.statusItemWithLength(-1)
self.icon = StatusMenuView()
item!.view = icon
and StatusMenuView might look like:
// This is an edited copy & paste from one of my personal projects so it might be missing some code
class StatusMenuView:NSView {
private(set) var image: NSImage
private let titleString:NSString = "really long title..."
init() {
icon = NSImage(named: "someImage")!
let myWideStatusBarItemFrame = CGRectMake(0, 0, 180.0, NSStatusBar.systemStatusBar().thickness)
super.init(frame.rect)
}
override func drawRect(dirtyRect: NSRect)
{
self.item.drawStatusBarBackgroundInRect(dirtyRect, withHighlight: self.isSelected)
let size = self.image.size
let rect = CGRectMake(2, 2, size.width, size.height)
self.image.drawInRect(rect)
let titleRect = CGRectMake( 2 + size.width, dirtyRect.origin.y, 180.0 - size.width, size.height)
self.titleString.drawInRect(titleRect, withAttributes: nil)
}
}
Now, the above might change your event handling, you'll need to handle mouseDown in the StatusMenuView class.