webview popover #261

cycle4passion · 2021-12-30T19:26:51Z

This is an enhancement request. The data from swiftbar could be output to HTML file, that is visualized in a popover webview such as on main menubar display mouseover and/or item clicks. Ideally this would also give the author webview size controls. This open source project (no affiliation) gives you a good idea: Menubar Popup Browser

melonamin · 2022-01-14T02:50:02Z

#!/bin/bash

echo ":house:| href=https://google.com webview=true webvieww=720 webviewh=400"
echo "---"
echo "My link| href=https://apple.com"

Reusing href, new webviewparameter enables the popover, webvieww and webviewh are optional width and height of the popover.

cycle4passion · 2022-01-16T16:31:05Z

Very nice.

how would this Will this support a local html file? I was thinking Swiftbar aggregates the data, and then writes it out to html file in a display format of your choice.

melonamin · 2022-01-16T17:46:04Z

Exactly the same, you can put local file url like file:///Users/user/Documents/index.html in href

Here is a test build, if you want to give it a try SwiftBar.app.zip

cycle4passion · 2022-01-16T22:17:18Z

It looks like when you attach a webview to the menubar display, it blocks the click triggering the dropdown of other information. Can you display on mouseover rather than click?

melonamin · 2022-01-16T22:23:40Z

Try using the right click!

cycle4passion · 2022-01-16T22:48:58Z

Right click is a little hidden, as we always accessed via left click, but if mousover is difficult, I am more than happy to have this functionality.

I was trying to write out to the plugin directory in node. Successful with hardcoded path, but having trouble accessing ENV variable SWIFTBAR_PLUGIN_PATH

const fs = require('fs');
const writefile = (data, filename="") => {
	if (!filename) {
		filename = `/Users/scottrhamy/Documents/Shared/Application Settings/Swiftbar/plugins/BTC Holdings/index.html`; // works
		//filename = `${SWIFTBAR_PLUGIN_PATH}/index.html` // breaks
	}
	fs.writeFile(filename, data, (err) => {
		if (err) {
			console.log(err);
		}
	});
}

let html = `<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
        <meta charset="UTF-8">
	<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0">
	<title></title>
	<link rel="stylesheet" href="../base.css">
</head>
<body>
Hello, world!
</body>
</html>`

writefile(html)

melonamin · 2022-01-16T23:09:08Z

It fails because SWIFTBAR_PLUGIN_PATH is the file path to plugin's file, and you're trying to use it as a folder.
You should use either SWIFTBAR_PLUGIN_CACHE_PATH or SWIFTBAR_PLUGIN_DATA_PATH

melonamin · 2022-01-17T01:14:56Z

Right click is a little hidden, as we always accessed via left click, but if mousover is difficult, I am more than happy to have this functionality.

As for right title - it was there since the beginning, and it was in BitBar forever. It is a common pattern for other menu bar items on the Mac as well. Mouse over is not difficult to implement, it is prone to accidental activation which will be annoying.

cycle4passion · 2022-01-17T02:32:20Z

Now that you have explained it, I agree mouseover would be annoying.

Accessing any ENV variables in node causes plug-in to disappear. No warning icon on menubar, no warnings in console. Anywhere else to look for logs?

melonamin · 2022-01-17T02:57:25Z

SwiftBar is running but plugin disappears from the menu bar? One potential reason for that - SwiftBar would hide plugin if it produces empty output

You can check Debug View, see this comment

cycle4passion · 2022-01-17T12:00:37Z

defaults write com.ameba.SwiftBar PluginDebugMode -bool YES
Run Swiftbar 1.4.3
Choose plug in debug
Update plug in with ENV reference (as below)
Refresh plug in

fails in 1.4.2 - CONSOLE

and 1.4.3 - CONSOLE

Minimal reproducible Node example: Error.js

#!/usr/bin/env /usr/local/bin/node
// <bitbar.title>Erroring in Node</bitbar.title>
// <bitbar.version>v1.0</bitbar.version>
// <bitbar.author>Scott Rhamy</bitbar.author>
// <bitbar.author.github>cycle4passion</bitbar.author.github>
// <bitbar.desc></bitbar.desc>
// <bitbar.image></bitbar.image>
// <bitbar.dependencies>node - https://nodejs.org/en/download/</bitbar.dependencies>
// <bitbar.abouturl></bitbar.abouturl>
// </swiftbar.environment> 
// <swiftbar.runInBash>false</swiftbar.runInBash>

(async () => {
  console.log(`SWIFTBAR_VERSION: ${SWIFTBAR_VERSION}`);
  console.log(`---`);
})();

melonamin · 2022-01-17T14:51:18Z

This is not how you access env variables in node.js, do this:

console.log(`SWIFTBAR_VERSION: ${process.env.SWIFTBAR_VERSION}`);

cycle4passion · 2022-01-18T23:13:50Z

I have been playing around with more...

I pointed Swiftbar at:

console.log('hello | href=file:///Users/username/Documents/Shared/Application Settings/Swiftbar/cache/index.html webview=true webvieww=720 webviewh=400');

it failed. I dropped it into the browser URL, and it worked. Noticed it appropriately URIencoded it

file:///Users/scottrhamy/Documents/Shared/Application%20Settings/Swiftbar/cache/index.html

Maybe consider URIencode() on the swiftbar side so people can copy path from finder/explorer and use it with spaces.

melonamin · 2022-01-19T03:12:08Z

Added

arohl · 2022-03-26T08:40:29Z

Not sure that the URLencode enhancement is working

`Australia 391 | href=file:///Users/andrew/Library/Application%20Support/SwiftBar/Plugins/testcricket.5m.py/innings_1.html webview=true webvieww=650 webviewh=800

Australia 391 | href=file:///Users/andrew/Library/Application Support/SwiftBar/Plugins/testcricket.5m.py/innings_1.html webview=true webvieww=650 webviewh=800
`

The first of these works but the second doesn't

melonamin · 2022-03-26T11:17:15Z

@arohl SwiftBar line parameters must be quoted, it should be like this:
Australia 391 | href="file:///Users/andrew/Library/Application Support/SwiftBar/Plugins/testcricket.5m.py/innings_1.html" webview=true webvieww=650 webviewh=800

The change I made above wasnt't about URL encoding, but rather alowing for local file URLs.

arohl · 2022-03-27T15:16:50Z

That still didn't work for me
Pakistan 235 | href="file:///Users/andrew/Library/Application%20Support/SwiftBar/Plugins/testcricket.5m.py/innings_4.html" webview=true webvieww=650 webviewh=800

worked but
Pakistan 235 | href="file:///Users/andrew/Library/Application Support/SwiftBar/Plugins/testcricket.5m.py/innings_4.html" webview=true webvieww=650 webviewh=800
didn't (it displayed a blank 650x800 page)

melonamin · 2022-03-27T21:18:57Z

Interesting, can you share the plugin with me?

Because this works just as expected for me:

#!/bin/bash

echo ":house:| href='/Users/alex/Downloads/swiftbar website master/docs/index.html' webview=true webvieww=720 webviewh=400"
echo "---"
echo "My link| href=''"

arohl · 2022-03-29T13:59:59Z

My python code is

#!/usr/bin/env -P/Users/andrew/.asdf/shims/   python3

# <bitbar.title>Current cricket score</bitbar.title>
# <bitbar.version>v0.1</bitbar.version>
# <bitbar.author>Andrew Rohl</bitbar.author>
# <bitbar.author.github>arohl</bitbar.author.github>
# <bitbar.dependencies>python3</bitbar.dependencies>
from urllib.request import pathname2url
import os

innings_file_prefix = "innings"

print(":australia: 313/7 | symbolize=false")
print("---")

innings_with_path = f"{os.environ['SWIFTBAR_PLUGIN_DATA_PATH']}/{innings_file_prefix}_{1}.html"
print (innings_with_path)
print(f"313/7 | href=\"file://{innings_with_path}\" webview=true webvieww=680 webviewh=855")
print(f"313/7 | href=\"file://{pathname2url(innings_with_path)}\" webview=true webvieww=680 webviewh=855")

and I have attached the datafile to go in the SWIFTBAR_PLUGIN_DATA_PATH directory (you will have to remove the .txt - surprisingly I can't upload a html file!
innings_1.html.txt

melonamin · 2022-04-16T22:32:54Z

@arohl try beta

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