How to programmatically open the app window from the background in SwiftUI on macOS (not iOS)? - swift

Question

I have a very simple SwiftUI app that runs in the menu bar and should periodically open an app window (there is only one window/view in the whole app) from inside a repeating timer in the background.
How do I actually open the app window from code?
Here's a simplified AppDelegate.swift example showing what I'm trying to do:
import Cocoa
import SwiftUI
#NSApplicationMain
class AppDelegate: NSObject, NSApplicationDelegate {
var window: NSWindow!
func applicationDidFinishLaunching(_ aNotification: Notification) {
// Create the SwiftUI view that provides the window contents.
let contentView = ContentView()
// Create the window and set the content view.
window = NSWindow(
contentRect: NSRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: 480, height: 300),
styleMask: [.titled, .closable, .miniaturizable, .resizable, .fullSizeContentView],
backing: .buffered, defer: false)
window.center()
window.setFrameAutosaveName("Main Window")
window.contentView = NSHostingView(rootView: contentView)
window.makeKeyAndOrderFront(nil)
var loop = 0
Timer.scheduledTimer(withTimeInterval: 1.0, repeats: true) { timer in
loop+=1
if (loop % 10 == 0) {
// TODO: How to close the window?
} else {
// TODO: How to reopen the window?
}
}
}
}

Answer 1

One approach is to hide/unhide the application itself
func applicationDidFinishLaunching(_ aNotification: Notification) {
//setup of window etc ...
Timer.scheduledTimer(withTimeInterval: 3, repeats: true, block: { _ in
if self.window.isVisible {
NSApp.hide(self)
} else {
NSApp.unhide(self)
}
})
}