Re: Display the state of a process
Re: Display the state of a process
- Subject: Re: Display the state of a process
- From: Christopher Stone <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2018 01:28:24 -0500
On 04/06/2018, at 21:49, Gil Dawson <email@hidden
<mailto:email@hidden>> wrote:
> I'd like to display the current state of a very-long-running process somewhat
> unobtrusively on the screen, while the user is doing other things. The user
> will look at this state only occasionally. An alert would be too intrusive.
>
> The state I wish to display is a number between zero and 7, and will change
> only now and then.
>
> A folder on the desktop, with one of the eight numbers displayed on the
> folder, might be good.
Hey Gil,
Platypus (freeware)
http://sveinbjorn.org/platypus <http://sveinbjorn.org/platypus>
Can supposedly create a status item menu, although I haven't done it myself.
If you want something free and easy to use then look at Bitbar
<https://getbitbar.com/>.
Running a little process in the menu bar that can change its icon and text is
about as unobtrusive and yet visible as you can get.
There's a less sophisticated widget that will put colored dots on the menu bar.
AnyBar <https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/57996/anybar>
If you want to spend about 3 bucks US and have something quite sophisticated:
TextBar <http://richsomerfield.com/apps/textbar/>
I believe you can create menu extras with AppleScriptObjC, but you'd have to
ask Shane to be certain.
> Can one change the appearance of a folder using AppleScript?
Can this be done with AppleScriptObjC?
There's a little shell tool called SetFileIcon
<http://www.hamsoftengineering.com/codeSharing/SetFileIcon/SetFileIcon.html>
from HAMSoft that can do it.
--
Take Care,
Chris
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