Flashing Icon Feature Req

[steubens]

First, let me say I'm excited to have found this wonderful little app that is so simple to use and so versatile! I am currently using it warn when I have disabled sleep mode on my MBP, however, I would like it to be even more obvious than the exclamation sitting motionless in the bar...

It would be awesome if there was a flash parameter... just a simple blink on and off at 1-second intervals. Even better if there was a way to customize the flashing interval, etc.

I would try to submit a pull for this feature but that type of coding is above my helmet. For now, I'm going to try and hack the feature by having a Keyboard Maestro macro that uses the nc calls to flash it on and off.

Thanks for listening! Keep up the great work!

[tonsky]

That’s a good suggestion, thanks! If I ever find time to come back and release a new version, I’ll try to include it too.

[steubens]

Awesome @tonsky! I will look forward to that.
In the meantime, for anyone else that stumbles into this comment and cares... I was able to use KM to do the flashing, but it ended up using about 10% of CPU on one core... while it's not much, it is too wonky and too much waste for my liking. I'm guessing someone with more skills than I, could craft a less resource-intensive shell script or similar. Anyhow, I am now using a combo of the exclamation anybar and a new feature in Amphetamine that allows for enabling/disabling sleep with the lid closed and sounding an audible alarm if you leave it enabled. Works very well...