display a menu bar icon on osx

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I’d like to have my application display an icon in OSX menu bar (top of screen where Growl sits). How would I do this using Python? (I understand this is not possible using wxPython but I am not after a wxPython specific solution).

Thanks!

Asked By: jldupont

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Answer 1

The API for displaying icons in the OS X menubar is called NSStatusItem. It’s going to be difficult or impossible to use from a wxPython application, though — you will probably have to write your application using PyObjC to use it effectively.

Answered By: user149341

Answer 2

An implementation of this may be found at:

https://web.archive.org/web/20080709014939/http://the.taoofmac.com/space/blog/2007/04/22/1745

http://the.taoofmac.com/space/blog/2007/04/22/1745

Answered By: Luke Stanley

Answer 3

The rumps package makes this very easy. Here’s an example from rumps’s README:

import rumps

class AwesomeStatusBarApp(rumps.App):
    @rumps.clicked("Preferences")
    def prefs(self, _):
        rumps.alert("jk! no preferences available!")

    @rumps.clicked("Silly button")
    def onoff(self, sender):
        sender.state = not sender.state

    @rumps.clicked("Say hi")
    def sayhi(self, _):
        rumps.notification("Awesome title", "amazing subtitle", "hi!!1")

if __name__ == "__main__":
    AwesomeStatusBarApp("Awesome App").run()

Answered By: Brecht Machiels

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