AnyBar+text: OS X menubar status indicator

This project is forked from https://github.com/tonsky/AnyBar. Modifications by Brett Terpstra, the original author bears no responsibility for problems I cause.

AnyBar is a small indicator for your menubar that does one simple thing: it displays color dot. What color means is up to you. When to change color is also up to you.

Modifications in this fork:

This fork allows a few customizations, including the ability to set text and hide the colored status indicator.

1. You can send a string to the UDP port that will set text to the right of the menu item.

    echo -n "red This is the text" | /usr/bin/nc -4u -w0 localhost 1738
   

   • if the first word of the string is a recognized color name, it will set the indicator color. f there is no color name provided, the color will not be changed
   • The remainder of the string will be used to alter the text in the menu bar

2. You can use "none" as the color name to remove the indicator

3. The AppleScript dictionary has a new command for setting text

    tell application "AnyBar" to set title to "This is the text"
   

Download

Version 0.1.3 + text:

Usage

AnyBar is controlled via UDP port (1738 by default). Send it a message and it will change a color:

echo -n "black" | nc -4u -w0 localhost 1738

Following commands change color:

white
red
orange
yellow
green
cyan
blue
purple
black
question
exclamation

And one special command forces AnyBar to quit: quit

Alternative clients

Bash alias:

$ function anybar { echo -n $1 | nc -4u -w0 localhost ${2:-1738}; }

$ anybar red
$ anybar green 1739

Go:

• justincampbell/anybar
• johntdyer/anybar-go

Node:

• rumpl/nanybar
• snippet by skibz

PHP:

• 2bj/Phanybar

Java:

• cs475x/AnyBar4j

Python:

• philipbl/pyanybar

Ruby:

• davydovanton/AnyBar_rb

AppleScript:

tell application "AnyBar" to set image name to "blue"

tell application "AnyBar" to set current to get image name as Unicode text
display notification current

Integrations

• Webpack build status plugin roman01la/anybar-webpack
• boot-clj task tonsky/boot-anybar

Running multiple instances

You can run several instances of AnyBar as long as they listen on different ports. Use ANYBAR_PORT environment variable to change port and open -n to run several instances:

ANYBAR_PORT=1738 open -n ./AnyBar.app
ANYBAR_PORT=1739 open -n ./AnyBar.app
ANYBAR_PORT=1740 open -n ./AnyBar.app

Custom images

AnyBar can use user-local images if you put them under ~/.AnyBar. E.g. if you have ~/.AnyBar/square@2x.png present, send square to 1738 and it will be displayed. Images should be 19×19px (or twice that for retina).

Ports

• Ubuntu Unity limpbrains/somebar

Changelog

0.1.3

• AppleScript support (PR #8, thx Oleg Kertanov)

0.1.2

• Dark mode support. In dark mode AnyBar will first check for <image>_alt@2x.png or <image>_alt.png image first, then falls back to <image>.png
• Support for Mavericks actually works

0.1.1

• Support for Mavericks (PR #2, thx Oleg Kertanov)
• Support for custom images via ~/.AnyBar (PR #1, thx Paul Boschmann)

License

Copyright © 2015 Nikita Prokopov

Licensed under Eclipse Public License (see LICENSE).