NSStatusItem

I've been playing with Cocoa on my MacBook and I really wanted to create a Status Item on the "System Menu bar." Translated, I wanted to create a menu on the top-right of the menu bar that was displayed even when another app was brought to the front. When using Interface Builder I really couldn't see a graphical way to do it. After some searching I figured it out. In one of my controllers, I did the following:

NSStatusBar *bar = [NSStatusBar systemStatusBar];
       NSStatusItem * theItem = [bar statusItemWithLength:NSVariableStatusItemLength];
       [theItem retain];  
       [theItem setTitle:NSLocalizedString(@"Menu Title", @"")];
       [theItem setHighlightMode:YES];
       [theItem setToolTip:@"Menu ToolTip"];
       [theItem setEnabled:YES];
       [theItem sendActionOn:NSLeftMouseDownMask];
       [theItem setTarget:self];
       [theItem setAction:@selector(showInterface:)];
       [theItem setMenu:nil];

And boom, I now have a status item called "Menu Title" on the top right that is always displayed. Awesome!