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dusong

Hero

A Menubar App

I guess I found it in original google group. apologize as I can't find the original thread.
I made a few mods, so now:
- it list all Today items in menu bar
- clicking one of them will open it in THL in card view and start timer

https:/  /dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/299419/The%20Hit%20List%20Menu%20Bar.app.zip

also it requires MacRuby http://macruby.org

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UPDATE: all three version of menubar app:
Original version in MacRuby - https://github.com/himynameisjonas/the- … nu-bar-app
Another version in RubyMotion - https://github.com/cyberfox/thlmenubar
New version in Swift - https://github.com/freewizard/The-Hit-List-Start-Menu

Last edited by dusong (February 3, 2015 2:04 am)

terrence

Administrator

Re: A Menubar App

Sounds very interesting! Is source available? Seems to require the MacRuby framework which I don’t have installed (and most people won’t either). Curious how it’s built and how we can help.

dusong

Hero

Re: A Menubar App

Yes, it requires MacRuby, which stays long enough in my OS so I forget about it

And the source code lives right inside the app bundle

Last edited by dusong (March 13, 2014 10:37 pm)

Dave Boyle

Member

Re: A Menubar App

This is great - thanks!

Is it possible to display the number of tasks over the icon? I can make a more transparent icon, but would be good to save menubar space by having the number of tasks float over that icon.

dusong

Hero

Re: A Menubar App

That's technically feasible, just need more code work as it's not just a call to Cocoa API, but quite a few more to construct a view object.

I'm also wondering if THL will have more similar enhancement to the menubar icon given its 1.2 beta introduce menubar for the first time. 
If they choose not introduce Today list to menubar (and I have time), I might consider re-write this small app with RubyMotion and add more functionality.

TomEck

Member

Re: A Menubar App

Thank you for the menubar app! It is a bit cumbersome to install it but it is a helpful addition. Of course, if Karelia would pick up the idea it could be even more helpful with some basic features to control THL. Thanks again!

Cyberfox

Member

Re: A Menubar App

Greetings,
Hrm; who wrote that?  The source is included, which suggests I could port it to RubyMotion, which builds a standard Mac OS X application...

I'd want to make sure I had permission first, though.

--  Morgan

Cyberfox

Member

Re: A Menubar App

Greetings,
Here is my re-imagining of the THL Menu Bar application.  This version should have no external dependencies, and so should be more broadly usable.

https://github.com/cyberfox/thlmenubar/releases/latest

I've re-implemented it in RubyMotion.  I've tried to keep a lot of the concepts in place, and I used the 'show' code entirely.

This version allows you to sort by title or by priority (unprioritized is considered highest unfortunately), limits the display to 5 items and refreshes the count and list of tasks every 5 minutes.

Hopefully this is helpful to some other folks.

The source code is published at https://github.com/cyberfox/thlmenubar and is nominally MIT licensed.

I'm sure there are still bugs, so please feel free to file GitHub Issues against the project, or if you want to add other functionality (folder & list selection, saving the preferred sort order, configuring the number of tasks that show up in the list, etc.) please feel free to fork and send a pull request my way!

--  Morgan Schweers

Last edited by Cyberfox (May 22, 2014 6:15 pm)

dusong

Hero

Re: A Menubar App

Another version in in Swift: https://github.com/freewizard/The-Hit-List-Start-Menu , feel free to fork and pull req if you like

And download the compiled app: https://github.com/freewizard/The-Hit-L … u/releases

Updated @Jan 30, 2015: added a few functions

Last edited by dusong (February 2, 2015 9:56 am)

terrence

Administrator

Re: A Menubar App

Awesome, thank you!

madmaxmedia

Member

Re: A Menubar App

Thank you for this!!