MenuBar icon for dark mode in OS X in Java

Question

I cannot find information on how to set the menu icon for dark mode in OS X (introduced in OS X 10.10 Yosemite) in Java. I saw this post http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/macosx-port-dev/2014-October/006740.html , but without an answer. I know this has been discussed here How to define dark mode in Yosemite to change the status bar menu icon for Objective-C, but not sure if this can be done the same way in Java.

Is there any way to achieve this?

Answer 1

I had the same problem, solving it, calling the command defaults readand analyzing the exit code:

/**
 * @return true if <code>defaults read -g AppleInterfaceStyle</code> has an exit status of <code>0</code> (i.e. _not_ returning "key not found").
 */
private boolean isMacMenuBarDarkMode() {
    try {
        // check for exit status only. Once there are more modes than "dark" and "default", we might need to analyze string contents..
        final Process proc = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(new String[] {"defaults", "read", "-g", "AppleInterfaceStyle"});
        proc.waitFor(100, TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS);
        return proc.exitValue() == 0;
    } catch (IOException | InterruptedException | IllegalThreadStateException ex) {
        // IllegalThreadStateException thrown by proc.exitValue(), if process didn't terminate
        LOG.warn("Could not determine, whether 'dark mode' is being used. Falling back to default (light) mode.");
        return false;
    }
}

java.awt.TrayIcon:

// java.awt.* controls are well suited for displaying menu bar icons on OS X
final Image image;
if (isMacMenuBarDarkMode()) {
    image = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getImage(getClass().getResource("/tray_icon_darkmode.png"));
} else {
    image = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getImage(getClass().getResource("/tray_icon_default.png"));
}