FB10185203: It should be possible to programmatically show/hide the window presented by SwiftUI MenuBarExtra

[sindresorhus]

• Date: 2022-06-12
• Resolution: Open
• Area: SwiftUI Framework
• OS: macOS 12.4
• Type: Suggestion

Description

Lets say you make a menu bar app using the new MenuBarExtra SwiftUI scene and the WindowMenuBarExtraStyle.window style. When you click the menu bar item, it presents a window. It’s common to provide a way for the user to show and hide the window using a global keyboard shortcut. However, there is no way to programmatically toggle this window. So this feature cannot be implemented. It would be nice if the menu when using PullDownMenuBarExtraStyle.menu could be programmatically toggled too.

Most of my menu bar apps have a setting where the user can choose a global keyboard shortcut to toggle the window, so I will sadly not be able to move to MenuBarExtra at this time.

[Iomegan]

This also makes sense for apps that want to show another window from the menu bar.

openWindow(id: "main-app-window")

will open a window but not close MenuBarExtra with WindowMenuBarExtraStyle.window.

[dgrcode]

I recommend this package https://github.com/orchetect/MenuBarExtraAccess, found in a similar request #383 (comment)