Clickable status bar icon?

Targets macOS
1

Hi,
I have the following code which correctly displays a status bar icon in the menu bar.

[code]// DEFINE AND DISPLAY THE NSStatusItem IN THE OS X MENUBAR
dim bar as NSStatusBar = NSStatusBar.SystemStatusBar
item1 = bar.CreateStatusItem(NSStatusBar.NSVariableStatusItemLength, AddressOf StatusItemHandler)

// DISALLOW HIGHLIGHTING
item1.highlightMode = False

// DEFINE THE DEFAULT IMAGE
item1.Image = new Cocoa.NSImage(retinaKit.imageNamed( “NSStatusItemImage” ).NSImageRef)

// DECLARE NO MENUITEMS
item1.menu = nil

// DEFINE THE EVENT HANDLER
item1.Action = Cocoa.NSSelectorFromString(“menuAction:”)[/code]

Can someone please advise me how I now make the status bar icon clickable?
I would like Window1 to display when the icon is clicked.

Thank you all in advance.

2

Maybe try MBS Examples?

3

you may want to check Action event there and call SendActionOn passing NSLeftMouseDownMask maybe?

4

Check this out: https://github.com/macoslib/macoslib/issues/83

5

Thanks Thomas, but I have absolutely no idea how to merge that with my example above?

Thanks anyway.

6

First you’ll have to modify MacOSLib’s NSStatusItem.Action and .Menu properties. Then, you can open your window in the StatusItemHandler.

7

The way I ended up doing it was to modify the setTarget method of NSStatusItem…

Add this

Target=target_id Action = Cocoa.NSSelectorFromString("menuAction:")

This sets the target and action of the statusItem, so if the menu is nil, it will fire on click. If there is a menu, the action of the StatusItem is never called.

Does the same as the link above, but in a default way where you don’t have to remember to set nil on the menu to get clicks.

8

Jim, do you mean simply add your line of code above, (exactly as-is) to the very bottom of my original code?
Or do you mean replace my last line of code with yours?

Thanks.

9

Ah, I misread your post Jim.

Now solved!
I simply added Jim’s 2 lines of code to the end of NSStatusItem’s setTarget method, as he suggested :slight_smile:

Thank you all so much!