electron-tray-test

Testing out Tray API in Electron, showing Tray click event behavior

To try out:

npm install
npm run start

Upon running the app, you will see a heart icon in the menu bar / tray.

If the lazyMenu boolean was set to false, the contextMenu is attached to the Tray on startup. Now, if you click on it in various ways, notice how nothing is printed in the terminal. This is expected behavior. (See issue electron/electron#4796)

If the lazyMenu boolean was set to true, then it is up to the click and right-click Tray event handlers to call tray.popUpContextMenu().

In main.js, there are the following block of event handlers:

tray.on('click', function() {
    console.log("tray click");
});
tray.on('right-click', function() {
    console.log("tray right-click");
});
tray.on('double-click', function() {
    console.log("tray double-click");
});

Note that on Mac OS X, only the 'right-click' event is fired when using an external mouse, not from ctrl-click on a trackpad.