NSStatusItem change image for dark tint

Question

With OSX 10.10 beta 3, Apple released their dark tint option. Unfortunately, it also means that pretty much all status bar icons (with the exception of Apple\'s and Path Fin

Answer 1

I end up did something like following to my custom drag and drop NSStatusItemView: (Using Swift)

var isDark = false

func isDarkMode() {
    isDark = NSAppearance.currentAppearance().name.hasPrefix("NSAppearanceNameVibrantDark")
}

override func drawRect(dirtyRect: NSRect) {
    super.drawRect(dirtyRect)
    isDarkMode()
    // Now use "isDark" to determine the drawing colour.
    if isDark {
        // ...
    } else {
        // ...
    }
}

When the user changed the Theme in System Preferences, the NSView will be called by the system for re-drawing, you can change the icon colour accordingly.

If you wish to adjust other custom UI outside this view, you can either use KVO to observer the isDark key of the view or do it on your own.