How do I show the menu bar window programmatically in Swiftui?

Question

I'm trying to programmatically open MenuBarExtra in Swift on macOS using a global keyboard shortcut. I've already setup all the code for the keyboard shortcut but I can't figure out how to show/hide the MenuBarExtra using SwiftUI. Is there a way of doing so in native SwiftUI which I can't seem to find? Otherwise, is there a way of doing so via AppKit?

I've defined my menubar app the in the following way:

MenuBarExtra("Title", image: "sample_icon", content: {
      ContentView()
         .preferredColorScheme(.dark)
})

Robert M. Lefkowitz · Accepted Answer · 2023-11-14 21:24:31Z

3

The following worked for me:

I'm using HotKey (https://github.com/soffes/HotKey )

My keyUpHandler looks like this:

{
let statusItem = NSApp.windows.first?.value(forKey: "statusItem") as? NSStatusItem
statusItem?.button?.performClick(nil)
}

Works for both .menu and .window menuBarExtraStyle

answered Nov 14, 2023 at 21:24

Robert M. Lefkowitz

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inexcitus Apr 19 at 16:32

This solution helped me very much. Thanks a lot!

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