DateTime Menu Bar Widget
A simple widget to help with:
- Converting to and from the UNIX timestamp.
- Comparing two dates or times.
- Date formatting in PHP.
Developer information
The XCode version of this widget, using Swift 3, uses a WebView.
It does this by adding an icon to NSStatusBar (the system menu bar), where a left click will open an NSPopover.
The widget intentionally remains open until a second left click (so multiple values can be copy/pasted).
A right hand click will open an NSMenu, allowing the user to quit.
The majority of the code is in HTML/CSS/JavaScript (found in the View folder).
PHP is used for date formatting, and the timestamp diff.
JavaScript does this by calling DateTimeApp.message(), which is received by the swift function DateTimeMessage, and passed on to PHP. The response is returned to JavaScript.
Each time the popover is opened, it calls dateTime.onShow(), which allows the JavaScript to reset the fields.
For styling, the popover uses NSAppearanceNameVibrantDark, while the WebView has drawsBackground = false.
To make it load faster, the popover has animates = false, and the JavaScript uses setTimeout so it does not need to wait for the PHP to respond.
To help debug the HTML/CSS/JavaScript, you can use:
defaults write uk.co.craigfrancis.DateTime WebKitDeveloperExtras -bool true