Show NSMenu only on NSStatusBarButton right click?

Question

I have the following code: (can be copy-pasted to New macOS project)

import Cocoa
import SwiftUI

@NSApplicationMain
class AppDelegate: NSObject, NSAppl         


        

Answer 1

I'm using this code on macOS Catalina. 10.15.2. ( Xcode 11.3).
On left click It trigger action.
On right click it show menu.

//HEADER FILE
#import 
#import 
NS_ASSUME_NONNULL_BEGIN

@protocol MOSMainStatusBarDelegate

- (void) menuBarControllerStatusChanged: (BOOL) active;

@end


@interface MOSMainStatusBar : NSObject

@property (strong) NSMenu *menu;
@property (strong, nonatomic) NSImage *image;
@property (unsafe_unretained, nonatomic) id delegate;

- (instancetype) initWithImage: (NSImage *) image menu: (NSMenu *) menu;
- (NSStatusBarButton *) statusItemView;
- (void) showStatusItem;
- (void) hideStatusItem;


@end

//IMPLEMANTION FILE. 

#import "MOSMainStatusBar.h"

@interface MOSMainStatusBar ()

@property (strong, nonatomic) NSStatusItem *statusItem;

@end

@implementation MOSMainStatusBar

- (instancetype) initWithImage: (NSImage *) image menu: (NSMenu *) menu {
    self = [super init];
    if (self) {
        self.image = image;
        self.menu = menu;
    }
    return self;
}

- (void) setImage: (NSImage *) image {
    _image = image;
    self.statusItem.button.image = image;

}

- (NSStatusBarButton *) statusItemView {
    return self.statusItem.button;
}

- (void) showStatusItem {
    if (!self.statusItem) {
        self.statusItem = [[NSStatusBar systemStatusBar] statusItemWithLength:NSSquareStatusItemLength];

        [self initStatusItem10];

    }
}

- (void) hideStatusItem {
    if (self.statusItem) {
        [[NSStatusBar systemStatusBar] removeStatusItem:self.statusItem];
        self.statusItem = nil;
    }
}



- (void) initStatusItem10 {

    self.statusItem.button.image = self.image;


    self.statusItem.button.imageScaling =  NSImageScaleAxesIndependently;

    self.statusItem.button.appearsDisabled = NO;
    self.statusItem.button.target = self;
    self.statusItem.button.action = @selector(leftClick10:);

    __unsafe_unretained MOSMainStatusBar *weakSelf = self;

    [NSEvent addLocalMonitorForEventsMatchingMask:
     (NSEventMaskRightMouseDown | NSEventModifierFlagOption | NSEventMaskLeftMouseDown) handler:^(NSEvent *incomingEvent) {

         if (incomingEvent.type == NSEventTypeLeftMouseDown) {
             weakSelf.statusItem.menu = nil;
         }

         if (incomingEvent.type == NSEventTypeRightMouseDown || [incomingEvent modifierFlags] & NSEventModifierFlagOption) {

             weakSelf.statusItem.menu = weakSelf.menu;
         }

         return incomingEvent;
     }];
}

- (void)leftClick10:(id)sender {

    [self.delegate menuBarControllerStatusChanged:YES];
}