Can I open an NSMenu programatically?

Question

Like the title says, I want to automatically open the menu at certain intervals. Preferably from within the program itself, as I am sure I could do something manually with applescripts+cron, which I don't want to use.

I am talking about a menu/button/whatever from the OSX menubar. Just to be clear. No custom views, just a plain nsmenu.

Answer 1

For opening an NSStatusItem menu, I found it easier to call the performClick method on the button belonging to the NSStatusItem. That way I didn't have to worry about properly passing an event or view to popUpContextMenu. Something like this:

statusItem.button?.performClick(nil)

Answer 2

You can programatically show an NSMenu by calling:

[NSMenu popUpContextMenu:YOUR_MENU withEvent:MOUSE_EVENT forView:YOUR_VIEW]

To construct the event you can use NSEvent's +mouseEventWithType:location:modifierFlags:timestamp:windowNumber:context:eventNumber:clickCount:pressure:

Note: if your menu is an NSStatusItem menu, you will have to set the item's view to be able to popUp the menu.