What is alternative to NSStatusItem.popUpMenu?

Question

NSStatusItem.popUpMenu has been deprecated in macOS 10.14, but I can't find a nice alternative.

let m = statusItem.menu!
statusItem.popUpMenu(m) // deprecated

I tried direct pop-up using menu and the button, but it doesn't position properly.

let m1 = m.items.first!
m.popUp(positioning: m1, at: .zero, in: statusItem.button!)

Answer 1

Xcode suggests to use menu property instead of popupMenu. But once you set the menu property, every click on the item will only show the menu.

Instead, if you want to control when the menu is shown, say only in response to a right click, then a simple way to manually trigger the menu is by calling performClick on NSStatusBarButton in your handler.

statusItem.menu = myMenu
statusItem.button?.performClick(nil)
statusItem.menu = nil

You have to set menu back to nil, if you want to keep handling clicks yourself.