Text in menubar rather than icon

[jsifalda]

Is there way how to display text in menu bar instead of icon?
For example if I want to use it as a countdown? (changing text every minute?)

[jenslind]

I don't think Electron supports this.
See electron/electron#1553

[jsifalda]

such a pity :(

[davej]

@jsifalda You could probably create the icon on the fly using canvas and output to png, dataUrl = canvas.toDataURL("image/png"). Then read the Data URL using Electron's nativeImage API nativeImage.createFromDataUrl(dataUrl).

[vitorgalvao]

This is indeed supported by Electron. Perhaps not on Linux and Windows, but definitely on OS X. Kyoku does it to show the currently playing song from iTunes.

[willwashburn]

As @vitorgalvao noted, in OSX at least you should be able to set the title of the electron Tray instance:
http://electron.atom.io/docs/v0.36.8/api/tray/#traysettitletitle-os-x

For instance

mb.on('ready', function ready () {
  mb.tray.setTitle('woo!')
})