bundle tray icon image into application

[Nikhil Saraf]

I'm trying to bundle the image for the tray icon with my deployment, but it fails to copy the tray icon image into the bundled file (MacOS).

This gives an error when trying to start the app because the tray icon is missing in the packaged binary.

I'm certain this should be possible but just couldn't get it to work. I even see the byte-version of the image in the bind_*.go files.

[Nikhil Saraf]

^@asticode

[Quentin Renard]

are you using the bootstrap ?

[Nikhil Saraf]

Yes

[AngryMongol]

at least the auto generated plst file is ignoring icon paths

<key>CFBundleIconFile</key>
		<string>`+b.appName+filepath.Ext(b.pathIconDarwin)+`</string>

[Nikhil Saraf]

To get around this issue I'm writing out the icon file (png) to disk from the bind file that is generated by the bundler (link to source code). Then I pass the path of that generated icon file to the TrayOptions (link to source code).

If there's a better way to do this such as specifying which files in the resources directory we also want included in the final package that would be very helpful

[Quentin Renard]

@khuderm This section of the plst file is for the App icon, not the Tray icon. And no need to take the path into account since the icon has been moved by the bundler.

@nikhilsaraf The path you provide for the Tray is relative to the app directory. As your tray icon must be in the resources folder, the path you set in the bootstrap Options should be resources/path/to/icon.png so in your case resources/[e-mail]. Does that work better ?

[Nikhil Saraf]

@asticode that didn't work for me and I got the same error because it never copied resources/[e-mail] into the final resources folder.

[Quentin Renard]

Does the app icon gets copied ? resources/[e-mail] in your case ?

[Nikhil Saraf]

@asticode yes that gets copied, probably because it’s specified in the bundled.json file (source code)

[Quentin Renard]

1 ) Can you run ls -l on your resources folder in your source project and paste results here ?
2) Can you run ls -l on your resources folder in your app located in /path/to/name.app/Contents/MacOS/resources and paste results here as well ?
3) Can you enable astilog at the top of your main function:

flag.Parse()
astilog.FlagInit()

run /path/to/name.app/Contents/MacOS/name -v and paste logs here?
4) Run the bundler with the -v flag and paste logs here?