MacOS app as background process with system tray icon and native menu…

MacOSX and iOS
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Hi :slight_smile:

4 years later, I am having the exact same issue as point number 2 above. I want the menu of my SystemTrayIcon to be “macOS” like, i.e. same as other apps. I believe using the SystemTrayIconComponent::showDropdownMenu() is the way to do this, but there are no examples using it.

Taking the DemoRunner example and changing these lines in Main.cpp at line 70:

         m.addItem (1, "Quit");
         m.showMenuAsync (PopupMenu::Options(),
                          ModalCallbackFunction::forComponent (menuInvocationCallback, this));

changed to

         m.addItem ("Quit", DemoTaskbarComponent::menuInvocationCallback);
         showDropdownMenu(m);
         // and I removed the parameters of menuInvocationCallback()

This hits the jassertfalse in createNSMenu(), line 845 of juce_MainMenu_mac.mm.
Looking at the JUCE code, it seems the JuceMainMenuHandler singleton is never instanciated, except in MenuBarModel::setMacMainMenu(), which I guess I should call somehow?

I am not sure I fully grasp what a MenuBarModel is and why it would be nedded for the SystemTrayIcon menu? Could someone point me to the right direction?

Thank you!

Simon

PS: not sure if this is fully related, but there was a similar issue in the past: SystemTrayIconComponent OSX native menus broken in 5.00 working in 4.3.1 ?