consider including working example(s)

[tmc]

Working minimal examples would help illustrate the use of this package.

[dmitshur]

Sounds like a good idea, I'll do that.

Until this is resolved, feel free to look at Instant Share client source, which uses this package.

[dmitshur]

Done. See https://godoc.org/github.com/shurcooL/trayhost#example-package.

[jacobrosenthal]

Hrm. Trying this now but unsuccessful. Added the plist, an icon, changed name of the CFBundleExecutable, but when I click nothing happens. The only thing in the console is a quicklooksattelite: no file data for file file:///something.app

[dmitshur]

Which icon did you add? The example mentions "app-icon@2x.png", which needs to be in the Resources folder. That's the tray icon. There's also Icon.icns which is for the app bundle icon.

[jacobrosenthal]

Thanks for the response. Both actually. Im also playing with the Instant Share app you linked above.

[jacobrosenthal]

Is there some naming that has to match, inside the go app and in the plist, etc? Is there some logging I can add? Im actually not that familiar with go otherwise.

[dmitshur]

Thanks for the reproduce case in #8. With that, I was able to reproduce the issue and I now know what's wrong.

The problem was that by default, when launched via Finder, an app bundle will have its working directory at root (/) instead of inside the app bundle's Resources directory.

The reason it worked for my Instant Share.app is because I had the following bash script inside, which was executed first:

#!/bin/bash

WD=$(dirname "$0")
cd "${WD}/../Resources"
../MacOS/main -flags -here >log.txt 2>&1

I named that script wd and pointed it as the executable to run in the Info.plist file:

<key>CFBundleExecutable</key>
<string>wd</string>

So, that answers the question of how to logging (and specify flags, if you want).

I definitely did not document this part in the example, so I need to fix that.