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 Catalina. Rather than performClick like some of the other answers suggest, I had to manually position the popup. This works for me with external monitors.

func applicationDidFinishLaunching(_ aNotification: Notification) {
        statusItem = NSStatusBar.system.statusItem(withLength: NSStatusItem.variableLength)
        statusItem.button?.action = #selector(onClick)
        statusItem.button?.sendAction(on: [.leftMouseUp, .rightMouseUp])
        
        menu = NSMenu()
        menu.addItem(NSMenuItem(title: "Quit", action: #selector(NSApplication.terminate(_:)), keyEquivalent: "q"))
        menu.delegate = self
        
    }
    
    @objc func onClick(sender: NSStatusItem) {
        
        let event = NSApp.currentEvent!
       
        if event.type == NSEvent.EventType.rightMouseUp {
            // right click, show quit menu
            statusItem.menu = menu;
            menu.popUp(positioning: nil, 
                at: NSPoint(x: 0, y: statusItem.statusBar!.thickness),
                in: statusItem.button)
        } else {
           // main click 
        }
    }
    @objc func menuDidClose(_ menu: NSMenu) {
        // remove menu when closed so we can override left click behavior
        statusItem.menu = nil
    }