StatusItem

A simple command line utility to manage status items on the Mac's menu bar.

Examples

The following commands:

$ StatusItem virtualbox /Applications/VirtualBox.app/Contents/Resources/virtualbox-vbox.icns
$ StatusItem green :NSStatusAvailable
$ StatusItem yellow :NSStatusPartiallyAvailable
$ StatusItem red :NSStatusUnavailable

Will result in the following status bar:

To list all status items:

$ StatusItem -l
green
red
virtualbox
yellow

To remove all status items:

$ StatusItem green
$ StatusItem red
$ StatusItem virtualbox
$ StatusItem yellow

Usage

Create/modify a status item with name NAME:

$ StatusItem NAME /PATH/TO/ICON.icns

Create/modify a status item with an icon and some message text in its menu:

$ StatusItem -m "MESSAGE TEXT" NAME /PATH/TO/ANOTHER/ICON.png

Create/modify a status item with an icon, some message text and a "Remove" option in its menu:

$ StatusItem -r -m "MESSAGE TEXT" NAME /PATH/TO/ANOTHER/ICON.png

Create/modify a status item with an icon set to a system image. Names are derived from constants used with [NSImage imageNamed:]:

$ StatusItem NAME :SYSTEMIMAGE

Remove a status item with name NAME:

$ StatusItem NAME

List all current status items:

$ StatusItem -l

Building on OS X

Simply execute the following command:

$ sh ./StatusItem.m -o StatusItem

This will execute the proper clang command and will create the executable StatusItem.

License (BSD 3-Clause)

Copyright (c) 2015 Bill Zissimopoulos. All rights reserved.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.

2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.

3. Neither the name of the copyright holder nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.

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