I have a ruby script(https://github.com/daemonza/MacBak) that runs on my macbook as a daemon and monitors a bunch of directories for file changes and rsync any changes that happens. I was wondering would i be able to let it create a icon in the menu bar at the top? Just so that I know it's actually running, without having to check for it with ps.
Maybe later if needed I might want to be able to control the script from there, simple drop down with stop and status entries, etc.
It seems from ObjectC I can call NSStatusItem to get the icon, but I really just want to do it easily from my Ruby script. Perhaps maybe some applescript call that I can do?
This MacRuby script creates a status bar icon:
https://github.com/ashchan/gmail-notifr
So does this one:
https://github.com/isaac/Stopwatch
Here's a Gist including code that does it:
https://gist.github.com/1480884
# We build the status bar item menu
def setupMenu
menu = NSMenu.new
menu.initWithTitle 'FooApp'
mi = NSMenuItem.new
mi.title = 'Hellow from MacRuby!'
mi.action = 'sayHello:'
mi.target = self
menu.addItem mi
mi = NSMenuItem.new
mi.title = 'Quit'
mi.action = 'quit:'
mi.target = self
menu.addItem mi
menu
end
# Init the status bar
def initStatusBar(menu)
status_bar = NSStatusBar.systemStatusBar
status_item = status_bar.statusItemWithLength(NSVariableStatusItemLength)
status_item.setMenu menu
img = NSImage.new.initWithContentsOfFile 'macruby_logo.png'
status_item.setImage(img)
end
# Menu Item Actions
def sayHello(sender)
alert = NSAlert.new
alert.messageText = 'This is MacRuby Status Bar Application'
alert.informativeText = 'Cool, huh?'
alert.alertStyle = NSInformationalAlertStyle
alert.addButtonWithTitle("Yeah!")
response = alert.runModal
end
def quit(sender)
app = NSApplication.sharedApplication
app.terminate(self)
end
app = NSApplication.sharedApplication
initStatusBar(setupMenu)
app.run
You could look at MacRuby. It's a way of developing OS X apps using Ruby instead of Objective-C. It includes a number of improvements, such as getting rid of header files, so yu just have "implementation" files in Ruby. You can use IB for building windows too
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I'm trying to get a popup window to display random text and a picture every time a button is pressed in tkinter. My original code was going to use an if/elif statement to do this. It worked as intended but I thought it might be easier to pair the data in a dictionary since there would be 50 elif statements otherwise (is it frowned upon to use so many? I actually found it easier to read).I was able to get this working but now the toplevel window in tkinter is not being destroyed like it was in the original function. A new Label is just being created on top of it and I can't figure out why. The function code is below. Thanks in advance, any help would be appreciated!
def Add_Gemstone2():
global Addstone
#destroy the previous window if there is one.
try:
AddStone.destroy()
except(AttributeError, NameError):
pass
#create the window.
AddStone=Toplevel()
AddStone.configure(bg='White', height=200, width=325)
AddStone.geometry('325x180+10+100')
# add gemstones to list from file.
gem_stones = open('gemstones.txt')
all_gem_stones = gem_stones.readlines()
gemstones = []
for i in all_gem_stones:
gemstones.append(i.rstrip())
# Add pictures to list.
path = r'C:\Users\Slack\Desktop\PYTHON WORKS\PYTHON GUI PROJECT\gems'
gempictures = []
# r=root, d=directories, f = files
for r,d,f in os.walk(path):
for file in f:
if '.gif' in file:
gempictures.append(os.path.join(r, file))
#create dictionary from lists.
gemdiction = dict(zip(gemstones, gempictures))
key, val = random.choice(list(gemdiction.items()))
# create the labels.
glbl1 = Label(AddStone, text=key, bg='gold', wraplength=300)
glbl1.pack()
image = ImageTk.PhotoImage(Image.open(val))
glbl2 = Label(AddStone, image=image)
glbl2.image = image
glbl2.pack()
I don't see it anywhere in the Ruby API documentation but just in case I'm missing something...
I'm writing a plugin for SketchUp and I'm trying to add some options to the menu bar. One of my options would work best as a checkbox, but right now I have to have two separate buttons. Is there a way to create a checkbox menu item with the Ruby API?
Here's what I had to do instead:
foo = true
UI.menu("Plugins").add_item("Turn foo_option on") { #foo = true }
UI.menu("Plugins").add_item("Turn foo_option off") { #foo = false }
...and then I just use foo to change the options. Is there a cleaner way to do this?
SketchUp can have check marks in menu items. Both menu items and commands can have a validation proc. The documentation for set_validation_proc gives this example:
plugins_menu = UI.menu("Plugins")
item = plugins_menu.add_item("Test") { UI.messagebox "My Test Item"}
status = plugins_menu.set_validation_proc(item) {
if Sketchup.is_pro?
MF_ENABLED
else
MF_GRAYED
end
}
Although for checkmarks you would use the constants MF_CHECKED and MF_UNCHECKED
http://www.sketchup.com/intl/en/developer/docs/ourdoc/menu#set_validation_proc
http://www.sketchup.com/intl/en/developer/docs/ourdoc/command#set_validation_proc
I have not seen a checkbox menu item created from an extensions before, but I'm a beginning user so that's maybe why.
An other approach would be to do it like this:
unless file_loaded?(__FILE__)
plugin_menu = UI.menu("Plugin")
option_menu = plugin_menu.add_submenu("NameOfOption")
option_menu.add_item("OptionA"){ }
option_menu.add_item("OptionB"){ }
file_loaded(__FILE__)
end
The file_loaded?(_ FILE _) makes sure the menu only is created once, instead of every time you load your script. I hope this is helpfull. Maybe some experts now a way to create a checkbox menu.
I want to change the title of the the command window in matlab to state the current branch I am working on.
I know where to find the current branch name.
I need that every time this file is changed to note on a new branch, the title of the command window will be updated with the new branch name.
Any thoughts?
I have this M-file laying around (I think I got it from here). It might suit your needs:
function idetitle(Title)
%IDETITLE Set Window title of the Matlab IDE
%
% Examples:
% idetitle('Matlab - Foo model')
% idetitle(sprintf('Matlab - some big model - #%d', feature('getpid')))
win = appwin();
if ~isempty(win)
win.setTitle(Title);
end
end
function out = appwin()
%APPWIN Get main application window
wins = java.awt.Window.getOwnerlessWindows();
for ii = 1:numel(wins)
if isa(wins(ii), 'com.mathworks.mde.desk.MLMainFrame')
out = wins(ii);
return
end
end
out = [];
end
I'm new to xcode so please bear with me.
I have a label that I have set to blank, and after a user clicks 'go' I generate a random word or number and use:
self.label.stringValue = "some_word"
to update the view. (I am using MacRuby btw)
However, I would like to show 20 or so random words in quick succession before the last one is shown - just because it's too boring at the moment. (Alternatively, I'd be happy with showing an animated graphic in its place - which is replaced by the final random word.)
I've tried things like:
100.times do
num = rand(40)
self.label.stringValue = num
end
But it doesn't work. I've also tried .reloadData but to no avail as well.
Any ideas on how to achieve this?
So as not to leave the question haning, from the Macruby mailing list:
def drawWord(sender)
if !next_word
self.timer.invalidate
return
end
self.label.stringValue = next_word
self.setNeedsDisplay true
end
def next_word
...
end
self.timer = NSTimer.scheduledTimerWithTimeInterval( 1/20.0,
target:self, selector:"drawWord:", userInfo:nil, repeats:true)
I'm coding on Tk 8.5.9 from ActiveTcl on Ruby 1.8.7 on a Mac OS X 10.6.
To meet my application requirements I need to make the button widgets as small as the gif image but I am not able to. I have been hours searching and experimenting with negative results.
Greatly thankful in advance for any clues.
Following is the code i am trying to get small buttons from.
require 'tk'
require 'tkextlib/tile'
$up_img = TkPhotoImage.new("file"=>"arrowup-n.gif")
$down_img = TkPhotoImage.new("file"=>"arrowdown-n.gif")
root = TkRoot.new {title "Ek Composer"}
content = Tk::Tile::Frame.new(root).pack
Tk::Tile::Button.new(content) {width 1;image $up_img; command {move_up} }.pack
Tk::Tile::Button.new(content) {width 1;image $down_img;command {move_down}}.pack
def move_up
p "move up"
end
def move_down
p "move down"
end
Tk.mainloop
But the buttons remain too big :(.
It's awkward. The OSX theme really wants to add extra space at either end of the button.
You can try switching to the classic button (in tk itself) but that puts more space vertically and looks a bit less native. Or you can put the image in a label (which you can shrink exactly) and add bindings to it to make it respond to mouse clicks.
I added binding to label. Works fine. Thanks. Follows a code snippet of label with binding as button.
require 'tk'
$resultsVar = TkVariable.new
root = TkRoot.new
root.title = "Window"
$up_img = TkPhotoImage.new("file"=>"arrowup-n.gif")
$down_img = TkPhotoImage.new("file"=>"arrowdown-n.gif")
Lbl = TkLabel.new(root) do
image $up_img
borderwidth 0
font TkFont.new('times 20 bold')
foreground "red"
relief "groove"
pack("side" => "right", "padx"=> "50", "pady"=> "50")
end
Lbl.bind("ButtonPress-1") {
Lbl.configure("image"=>$down_img)
}
Lbl.bind("ButtonRelease-1") {
Lbl.configure("image"=>$up_img)
}
Lbl['textvariable'] = $resultsVar
$resultsVar.value = 'New value to display'
Tk.mainloop