OSX status menu not working in Swift

Question

I tried to add a simple status menu to the status bar with swift but it will not be shown.

with objective-c this worked:

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AppDelegate.h

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Answer 1

The problem here is that statusItem is going out of scope after applicationDidFinishLaunching finishes execution which in turn releases the object. This is not the case in your Objective-C code because the statusItem variable is declared at class level.

This should make your Swift code work:

class AppDelegate: NSObject, NSApplicationDelegate {

    @IBOutlet var statusMenu: NSMenu;
    var statusItem: NSStatusItem?;

    func applicationDidFinishLaunching(aNotification: NSNotification?) {
        let bar = NSStatusBar.systemStatusBar()

        statusItem = bar.statusItemWithLength(CGFloat(NSVariableStatusItemLength))
        statusItem!.title = "Status Menu"
        statusItem!.menu = statusMenu
        statusItem!.highlightMode = true
    }

}