#Swiftbar macos free#

This is the key function, which returns the string when the app asks to view the ToolTip: The ToolTip class is really simple, and is just a mechanism for storing the ToolTip string: I needed to create two new classes: one for my ToolTips, the other for my custom view. r/MacApps is a one stop shop for all things related to macOS apps - featuring app showcases, news, updates Press J to jump to the feed. In the absence of any other documentation or examples of ToolTips, I found an article by ‘a Swift developer’ which gave me some ideas. Now all I needed to do was display it all in my custom view. It is a macOS package file which behaves in the GUI like a single file but is in fact a directory.

SwiftBar to the rescue again I figured it would be easy to get the file size by means of the lscommand, but there is a catch the BZ package file is not a file, as hinted by the name.

#Swiftbar macos free#

The best alternative is BitBar, which is both free and Open Source. Finally, I used SwiftBar’s link feature so that if you select any of the information from the dropdown portion of the menu, it will take you to your Netatmo web dashboard, which includes historical data and other metrics (mostly gathered from sources other than your weather station). There are four alternatives to TextBar for Mac.

I had extracted the latter and saved it as an array of strings when processing the log data. SwiftBar is a macOS tool for quickly creating a menu bar application. But I wanted to keep an eye on this thing. TextBar is described as tiny but powerful app that lets you add any text to your MenuBar and is an app. What I wanted to do in Woodpile is have a custom NSView into which I draw a bar chart of the log load of the current log analysis, then on each bar provide a ToolTip giving details about the underlying data point – its value, date, time and name of the log file containing those data. The parameters given for the call to add a ToolTip are an unnamed NSRect, owner, and userData, but those listed below in the text are a named NSRect, anObject, and userData. Graphics are complex, and most thorough accounts of them quickly become terrifying ToolTips, on the other hand, appear to be almost undocumented, and the little that Apple provides hasn’t even been proof-read for self-consistency. Graphics and neat aids like ToolTips are daunting for different reasons. Operating system: macOS Ventura Debug info: Additional information.