codyphobe / AnyBar4j

Java controller & API for AnyBar (http://github.com/tonsky/AnyBar)

AnyBar4j

A Java application/API to control AnyBar instances.

From the Command Line

Options

Flag	Type	Description	Default
-?, --help		Show the available command line flags with descriptions.
-c, -i, --color, --image	String	The name of the image to display in the AnyBar instance.	"white"
-h, --host, --ip	String	The hostname or IP address of the machine running the AnyBar instance.	"localhost"
-p, --port	Integer	The port number that the AnyBar instance is running on.	1738

Examples

Change AnyBar to green:

java -jar AnyBar4j.jar -c green

Change AnyBar to exclamation on port 1800 of another local machine:

java -jar AnyBar4j.jar -c exclamation -h 10.0.0.42 -p 1800

From the API

1. Create an instance of AnyBar4j, passing in the hostname (string) and port (int) of the AnyBar instance.
2. Call setImage() on the AnyBar4j instance, using one of the AnyBarImage enum values or a custom name, to change the displayed image/color.
3. Call close() to close the client socket.

Default values

Name	Value
DEFAULT_HOST	"localhost"
DEFAULT_PORT	1738

AnyBarImage Enum Values (AnyBar Defaults)

Name
WHITE
RED
ORANGE
YELLOW
GREEN
CYAN
BLUE
PURPLE
BLACK
QUESTION
EXCLAMATION

Example

Change AnyBar to purple:

AnyBar4j anybar = null;

try {
	anybar = new AnyBar4j(AnyBar4j.DEFAULT_HOST, AnyBar4j.DEFAULT_PORT);

	anybar.setImage(AnyBarImage.PURPLE);
} catch (Exception e) {
	e.printStackTrace();
} finally {
	if (anybar != null) {
		anybar.close();
	}
}

In the above instance, you may substitute the AnyBar4j constructor with an empty constructor to connect to the default host and port:

anybar = new AnyBar4j(AnyBar4j.DEFAULT_HOST, AnyBar4j.DEFAULT_PORT);
// Same as
anybar = new AnyBar4j();