How activate/control app icon in menubar?

Discussion & Questions
1

If I have a running application that has an icon in the menubar, but it isn't the currently active app, I want to be able to do the equivalent of clicking the app's icon to get its menu and then select something on that menu. I know that the last part could be done with the "trigger menubar menu item" action, but how to get at the app's menubar icon menu? (running BTT 3.402 on Mojave)

2

II don't know if BTT has a function for this on board. Otherwise you can try it with AppleScript (UI Scripting).

Here is an AppleScript which you can easily customize:

set theApplication to "Your application name"
set theMenuItem to "The menu item name" 
set theMenuBar to 2 -- depending on application 1 or 2
set theDelay to 0.3 -- try values between .1 and 2

tell application "System Events"
	tell application process theApplication
		tell menu bar theMenuBar
			tell menu bar item 1
				ignoring application responses
					perform action "AXPress"
				end ignoring
			end tell
		end tell
	end tell
end tell

delay theDelay
-- resolve a bug in UI-Scripting for menu bar
do shell script "killall System\\ Events"

tell application "System Events"
	tell application process theApplication
		tell menu bar theMenuBar
			tell menu bar item 1
				tell menu 1
					tell menu item theMenuItem
						perform action "AXPress"
					end tell
				end tell
			end tell
		end tell
	end tell
end tell
3

Thanks Dirk... I worked out a simple AppleScript to do it. Seems like this is a needed and obvious extension to the "trigger menubar menu item" action to be able to specify a menu bar icon for it to apply to.

4

How did you end up doing it?