https://github.com/maximbilan/Mac-OS-X-App-Menu-Bar-Popup

Mac OS X Application like a menu bar popup message
https://github.com/maximbilan/Mac-OS-X-App-Menu-Bar-Popup

macosx menubar popup popup-message tutorial

Last synced: about 2 months ago
JSON representation

Mac OS X Application like a menu bar popup message

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/maximbilan/Mac-OS-X-App-Menu-Bar-Popup
• Owner: maximbilan
• License: mit
• Created: 2015-10-21T14:51:09.000Z (almost 9 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2018-09-21T14:51:01.000Z (almost 6 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-06-14T23:48:04.948Z (3 months ago)
• Topics: macosx, menubar, popup, popup-message, tutorial
• Language: Swift
• Size: 885 KB
• Stars: 189
• Watchers: 5
• Forks: 15
• Open Issues: 1
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

Awesome Lists containing this project

README

        
# Mac OS X Application like a menu bar popup message

A simple tutorial which explains how to create Mac OS X application as a menu bar popup message.


Like that:

![alt tag](https://raw.github.com/maximbilan/Mac-OS-X-App-Menu-Bar-Popup/master/screenshots/1.png)

For that, we need to create EventMonitor class for handling monitor events.


import Cocoa


open class EventMonitor {

	

	fileprivate var monitor: AnyObject?

	fileprivate let mask: NSEventMask

	fileprivate let handler: (NSEvent?) -> ()

	

	public init(mask: NSEventMask, handler: @escaping (NSEvent?) -> ()) {

		self.mask = mask

		self.handler = handler

	}

	

	deinit {

		stop()

	}

	

	open func start() {

		monitor = NSEvent.addGlobalMonitorForEvents(matching: mask, handler: handler) as AnyObject?

	}

	

	open func stop() {

		if monitor != nil {

			NSEvent.removeMonitor(monitor!)

			monitor = nil

		}

	}

}



And the example of AppDelegate:


import Cocoa


@NSApplicationMain

class AppDelegate: NSObject, NSApplicationDelegate {

	let statusItem = NSStatusBar.system().statusItem(withLength: -2)

	let popover = NSPopover()

	var eventMonitor: EventMonitor?

	func applicationDidFinishLaunching(_ aNotification: Notification) {

		

		if let button = statusItem.button {

			button.image = NSImage(named: "StatusBarButtonImage")

			button.action = #selector(AppDelegate.togglePopover(_:))

		}

		

		let mainViewController = NSStoryboard(name: "Main", bundle: nil).instantiateController(withIdentifier: "ViewControllerId") as! ViewController

		

		popover.contentViewController = mainViewController

		

		eventMonitor = EventMonitor(mask: [.leftMouseDown, .rightMouseDown]) { [unowned self] event in

			if self.popover.isShown {

				self.closePopover(event)

			}

		}

		eventMonitor?.start()

	}

	func applicationWillTerminate(_ aNotification: Notification) {

	}

	func togglePopover(_ sender: AnyObject?) {

		if popover.isShown {

			closePopover(sender)

		} else {

			showPopover(sender)

		}

	}

	

	func showPopover(_ sender: AnyObject?) {

		if let button = statusItem.button {

			popover.show(relativeTo: button.bounds, of: button, preferredEdge: NSRectEdge.minY)

		}

		eventMonitor?.start()

	}

	

	func closePopover(_ sender: AnyObject?) {

		popover.performClose(sender)

		eventMonitor?.stop()

	}

}



It’s really simple and I think no sense to describe details, just see the code.

Full code of this example you can find in this repository.