MyHouseIsBig/electron-traywindow-positioner

Positions a custom electron tray window

electron-traywindow-positioner

Helps to position a electron window as a custom tray menu window. On Windows and OSX the tray bar location is calculated and the window is
positioned based on the tray bar location.

On linux the position is calculated based on the current cursor position, because Tray.getBounds() always returns a Rectangle with all values set to zero.

Installation

npm install --save electron-traywindow-positioner

Usage

const positioner = require('electron-traywindow-positioner');

positioner.position(trayWindow, trayBounds);

• trayWindow must be an instance of a BrowserWindow.
• trayBounds must be an instance of Rectangle returned from tray.getBounds()

Only calculate the postion without positioning the window

const positioner = require('electron-traywindow-positioner');

positioner.calculate(windowBounds, trayBounds);

• windowBounds must be an instance of Rectangle returned from BrowserWindow.getBounds().
• trayBounds must be an instance of Rectangle returned from tray.getBounds()

Custom alignment

const alignment = {x: 'left', y: 'up'};

const positioner = require('electron-traywindow-positioner');

positioner.position(trayWindow, trayBounds, alignment);

// or

positioner.calculate(windowBounds, trayBounds, alignment);

• alignmet.x alignment on x axis relative to tray icon when tray bar is top or bottom. The value can be one of left, center or right, default is center.

• alignmet.y alignment on y axis relative to tray icon when tray bar is left or right. The value can be one of up, center or down, default is down.