I'm facing issues with %CPU when running my streaming plugin. After some tests I came to the conclusion that the CPU usage can increase a lot if I print more than a single-line output in SwiftBar.

This is my original print function in the Python script:

print(
    '~~~',
    f'{coin}: {roi_fmt} ({roe_fmt}%) | color={color}',
    '---',
    f'Side: {side}',
    f'Entry Price: {entry_price}',
    f'Last Price: {last_price}',
    f'Quantity: {qty}',
    '---',
    f'Take Profit: {take_profit}',
    f'Stop Loss: {stop_loss}',
    sep='\n',
    flush=True
)

With the above multi-line output I had a lot of issues with high CPU usage which can get 100% sometimes apart of the app hanging, so I changed to this one-line output in order to avoid issues:

print(
    '~~~',
    f'{coin}: {roi_fmt} ({roe_fmt}%) | color={color}',
    sep='\n',
    flush=True
)

Another issue I have been facing is that the output in SwiftBar constantly disappear for a second or two during the stream as you can see in the following gif:

SwiftBar is everything I dreamed BitBar could become. It isn't written in Objective-C for a start; what's not to like? Over the years, the BitBar codebase became stale, difficult to maintain, impossible to build in some cases, and a frustration to many.

I would like to propose that we take the best of both projects, and join forces.

SwiftBar brings:

• A fresh codebase written in a modern language 🎉
• This makes it much easier to contribute to, bug fix, and maintain
• Swift is accessible to many more developers too, including more junior devs who would be able to get involved (a point well made by @melonamin)
• A built-in plugin browser, which is a massive boost in UX, and opens the project up to non-techy users

BitBar has:

• History and reputation (it's used by lots of people, and has been featured in a few places, like TechRadar and Mac Format magazine)
• Momentum (more and more people are still discovering BitBar every day)

How?

This is how I think we should do it:

• Use the BitBar name
• PR the SwiftBar code into the BitBar repo (Ideally we would keep the history of all contributors)
• Find a neutral org on GitHub and move the BitBar repo there (unfortunately bitbar is taken, but I'm sure we can find something that works). Moving the repo is important so we get the GitHub redirection from the current repo
• Agree some product ownership and decision making processes to ensure the project is able to continue to develop into the future (and more importantly, doesn't go stale!)

Whatever we decide, I'd like to thank @melonamin and everyone who contributed to SwiftBar for building it.

I'm trying to display data retrieved from a websocket. It works if I run my script in the Terminal but SwiftBar doesn't show anything and I can't understand why (does anyone could explain?). My script is similar to this: https://github.com/Binance-docs/Binance_Futures_python/blob/master/example/websocket/subscribeaggregatetrade.py

Maybe it's the same issue once reported in BitBar repo: https://github.com/matryer/bitbar/issues/121. If it's the case, someone seems to have found a fix in this PR: https://github.com/matryer/bitbar/pull/317.

Btw, congratulations for the excellent work on this exciting project.

Running SwiftBar 1.4.2 and notice in the menubar the text ]697;DoneSourcing next to the output of the running plugin. I've checked the plugin I'm running and see nothing in the script to suggest 'sourcing'.

For kicks i installed and enabled a random plugin and it too had the text proceeding the script output in the menubar.

I've deleted the application and reinstalled the latest with no change in behavior.

• the plugin(s) run from a terminal session do not print that text, only the expected output for each script.
• the plugin i'm running is in python, the one i enabled for testing was a shell script, so it doesn't seem to be something language related.
• i've enabled Plugin debug mode and in the Plugin debug window see the text with each content update.
• i'm running macOS 12.1 on a M1.

screenshots:

2 enabled plug-ins in menu:

content update in debug window:

I really like the look of SF Symbols compared to emoji. I would like to add them to my plugin the same way you do using the emojize feature. It's possible to paste the SF Symbol into your output script, but this only works if you have the SF Symbols app installed and not all editors can display them.

Proposal: Add support for SF Symbols using a similar mechanism to emojize=true

Possible solution: Add an SF symbol to plugin output by using its system name as a token, eg. :square.and.arrow.up:. App would replace occurrences of these tokens with an SF Symbol if symbolize=true

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

I've noticed that SwiftBar will stop updating on wake and needs to be restarted for it to function again. Latest version of macOS Big Sur and SwiftBar 1.2.3. Installed from homebrew.

Describe the bug I have been seeing SwiftBar crashes (either SIGSEGV or SIGABRT) due to memory corruption.

I haven't been able to detect a consistent pattern with the crashes. They seem to happen every couple of days, typically after I've put my machine to sleep. They seem to happen when my machine does a macOS "power nap" wakeup, though I am not certain on that.

I'm attaching 3 crash reports to the bug. Two are segfaults (SIGSEGV) and one is a SIGABRT triggered by malloc() detecting heap corruption.

Environment:

• macOS version: 12.3.1 on Intel
• SwiftBar version: 1.4.3, installed from the homebrew cask

Additional Context:

I have 3 scripts running:

• A bash script that runs every 5 seconds
• A Go program that runs every 5 seconds
• A Go program that runs every 30 seconds

I do run Bartender. I have not (yet) tried running without it, though I previously ran earlier 1.4.x versions under it without issue.

I've attached the crash reports generated my macOS below. GitHub did not like the original ips extension, so I appended .txt to them. They are JSON files, however, but can be rendered more prettily by Console.app.

SwiftBar-2022-05-05-191332.ips.txt SwiftBar-2022-05-06-165801.ips.txt SwiftBar-2022-05-11-205124.ips.txt

Since updating to SwiftBar 1.4.2, my plugins are no longer updating automatically. For example, one of them says “last updated 39 seconds ago” (resetting to 0 every minute as specified) but the actual content is several hours old. Manually refreshing all plugins does nothing.

Sometimes (I think after opening my Macbook again after a night e.g.) SwiftBar doesn't update. It seems completely stuck as also "Refresh all" doesn't work. Only thing that seems to work is to quit and relaunch Swiftbar. Any ideas how to diagnose this?

Plugin code below:

#!/usr/bin/env bash

# <bitbar.title>Yabai Stats</bitbar.title>
# <bitbar.version>v1.0</bitbar.version>
# <bitbar.author>Rocky Zhang</bitbar.author>
# <bitbar.author.github>yanzhang0219</bitbar.author.github>
# <bitbar.desc>Show yabai status (workspace id, workspace layout) on the menubar.</bitbar.desc>
# <bitbar.dependencies>yabai, skhd</bitbar.dependencies>

export PATH="/usr/local/bin:$PATH"

spaces=$(yabai -m query --displays | jq 'sort_by(.frame.x) | map(.spaces | join(" ")) | join(" │ ")' | sed "s/\"//g")
cur_space_type=$(yabai -m query --spaces | jq '.[] | select(.focused == 1) | .type | if . == "bsp" then "B" elif . == "float" then "F" elif . == "stack" then "S" else . end' | sed "s/\"//g")

echo "${spaces} - ${cur_space_type}"

My plugin shows the current total desktops (i.e., workspaces) on the menu bar, cooperating with the macOS tiling window manager yabai.

On 1.0.2, it shows like this:

4 | 1 2 | 3 means I am using three monitors, and desktop 4 is on the left monitor, desktop 1 and 2 are on the middle monitor, desktop 3 is on the right monitor. B means the current desktop type is "bsp" which is used by yabai to denote that the current desktop is managed.

However, on 1.1.0 Beta 1, it becomes abnormal.

It only shows the hyphen.

Thank you!

Describe the bug Is there anyway to use sfimage pallette or hierarchical rendering to change the color of the image? For example, with the sfsymbols app I can set an image to a specific color

As discussed in #342

Set custom plugin repository url with: defaults write com.ameba.SwiftBar PluginRepositoryURL http://localhost:8000/

Use this archive as an example:

unzip "sb plugin repo.zip"
cd "sb plugin repo.zip"
python3 -m http.server

Hi,

Swiftbar seems to forget its position on the menubar after every restart in MacOS Ventura, and ends up on the left most position on the menubar. Other apps (e.g. Tunnelblick) are ok.

Swiftbar: Version 1.4.4 stable and also 1.5.0(469). MacOS Ventura 13.0.1

To reproduce: Move switftbar icon on menubar to position in middle, restart Mac, swiftbar comes back on the left most position on the menubar

Expected behaviour: Swiftbar should remain on the middle position it was moved to

Thanks

Describe the bug When more than one title is output to the header:

• Previously: SwiftBar cycles through displaying the titles one at a time for 5 seconds each
• On v1.4.4: The first title seems to dominate, with subsequent titles appearing briefly and intermittently. Eg. first title might be shown for 12 seconds, then second title is flashed for <1 second before first title is displayed again, this time for a different duration.

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Create a plugin which outputs at least 2 titles to the header ( before the first ---)
2. Enable the plugin and monitor the display duration for each title

Expected behavior

• Each title should be displayed for a standard duration (eg. 5s)
• Titles should cycle on a loop, giving equal display time to each

Screenshots https://cdn.zappy.app/va6dcd69c28fedf440a101c61a04693f9.mp4 See 00:27, Menu Item 2 flashes at ~00:28

Environment:

• macOS version: 12.5.1 (also observed on 13.0)
• SwiftBar version: 1.4.4 (see note in Additional Context)
• node version: 16.8.0 (also observed on 12.22.3)

Plugin Example:

#!/usr/bin/env node
console.log("Menu Title 1");
console.log("Menu Title 2");
console.log("---");
console.log("Body content");

Additional Context:

• [x] I don't run Bartender/Dozer/etc. or tested the issue without it running (observed both with & without Bartender)
• [x] This was reported to me by a colleague running v1.4.4 and I couldn't reproduce it on the older version I was running (sorry, I'm not sure which). While comparing environment versions between our machines, I noticed my SwiftBar was outdated. Once I updated to v1.4.4, I saw the issue.

Program want to get notification about system status, like lock/unlocked, like below:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35932501/check-device-is-locked-or-unlocked

I have a script running related to screen unlocked, and stop running when screen locked, need this type of notification.

Can swiftbar add this support?