Cocoa application menu bar not clickable

Question

I\'m building a menu bar in my cocoa application with the following code in the @implementation of my custom application CustomApplication:

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Answer 1

I had this issue and the reason was because my call to [NSApp activateIgnoringOtherApps:YES] was in applicationWillFinishLaunching: instead of applicationDidFinishLaunching:.

As soon as I moved it, the menubar worked on first-launch.

Answer 2

Okay, thanks to the remarks of @bhaller I was able to solve my problem.

I actually transferred my calls to the delegate as follows.

-(void)applicationWillFinishLaunching:(NSNotification *)aNotification
{
  [CustomApplication sharedApplication];
  [CustomApplication setUpMenuBar];
  [NSApp setActivationPolicy:NSApplicationActivationPolicyRegular];
}

-(void)applicationDidFinishLaunching:(NSNotification *)notification
{
  [CustomApplication sharedApplication];

  [NSApp activateIgnoringOtherApps:YES];
}

Answer 3

I fixed by removing LSUIElement in Info.plist if the app has a Window and Menu Bar.

The old solution is that we override this config with [NSApp setActivationPolicy:NSApplicationActivationPolicyRegular];, but in Catalina, it doesn't work anymore.