Ridiculously Uncomplicated Mac os x Python Statusbar apps.

import rumps

class AwesomeStatusBarApp(rumps.App):
    def __init__(self):
        super(AwesomeStatusBarApp, self).__init__("Awesome App")
        self.menu = ["Preferences", "Silly button", "Say hi"]

    @rumps.clicked("Preferences")
    def prefs(self, _):
        rumps.alert("jk! no preferences available!")

    @rumps.clicked("Silly button")
    def onoff(self, sender):
        sender.state = not sender.state

    @rumps.clicked("Say hi")
    def sayhi(self, _):
        rumps.notification("Awesome title", "amazing subtitle", "hi!!1")

if __name__ == "__main__":
    AwesomeStatusBarApp().run()

How fun!?

rumps can greatly shorten the code required to generate a working app. No PyObjC underscore syntax required!

rumps is for any console-based program that would benefit from a simple configuration toolbar or launch menu.

Good for:

• Notification-center-based app
• Controlling daemons / launching separate programs
• Updating simple info from web APIs on a timer

Not good for:

• Any app that is first and foremost a GUI application

• PyObjC

• py2app

For creating standalone apps, just make sure to include rumps in the packages list. Most simple statusbar-based apps are just "background" apps (no icon in the dock; inability to tab to the application) so it is likely that you would want to set 'LSUIElement' to True. A basic setup.py would look like,

from setuptools import setup

APP = ['example_class.py']
DATA_FILES = []
OPTIONS = {
    'argv_emulation': True,
    'plist': {
        'LSUIElement': True,
    },
    'packages': ['rumps'],
}

setup(
    app=APP,
    data_files=DATA_FILES,
    options={'py2app': OPTIONS},
    setup_requires=['py2app'],
)

With this you can then create a standalone,

python setup.py py2app

python setup.py install

"Modified BSD License". See LICENSE for details. Copyright Jared Suttles, 2014.