Triggering refresh on a timer

[jethrogillgren]

Amazing app, love it, especially the STATUSICON functionality in 5.4.
How difficult would it be to make a "Status Menu" taskbar application trigger updates on a regular interval?

Use case would be using STATUSICONto give a "connect" or "disconnected" icon depending on the output of some command.

Currently the icon will only update when it is clicked by the user, which makes the STATUSICON less useful.

Currently considering starting a background process to kill/restart the app on a timer (eg open -n /my.app echo "QUITAPP"), which has the issue that a new instance of the app doesn't seem to trigger STATUSICON updates until clicked.

[sveinbjornt]

This would indeed be a nice feature and I've often thought about it but never implemented. Will take a look at it for the next release.

[mbrotz]

Yes! I would love this feature too!

An option to execute the script on app launch with a special argument to distinguish from a click on the icon would be super handy too! This would make it possible to set the icon/text in the menubar dynamically at launch.