System tray text instead of icon

Question

How can I display text in the system tray instead of an icon? I want to display a percentage for example.

final TrayIcon trayIcon = new TrayIcon(createImage("image.png", "tray icon"));

The code above is to set an icon, but how can I set text such as 100% to display in the system tray? This is specifically on OSX.

TrayIcon is not SWT, so is this anything to do with SWT? – greg-449 Feb 12 '15 at 08:04 — greg-449, Feb 12 '15 at 08:04

Trevi Awater · Accepted Answer · 2015-05-19T07:30:05.943

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You can draw the text onto an image, this does the job although you are still using an image. I don't think there is an other way to do it.

BufferedImage image = new BufferedImage(16, 16, BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_ARGB);
Graphics2D g2d = image.createGraphics();
g2d.drawString("100%", x, y);
g2d.dispose();
trayIcon.setImage(image);

edited May 19 '15 at 07:30

answered Feb 12 '15 at 08:01

Trevi Awater

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drawString requires two arguments though? its asking for either ("",float,float) or ("",int,int) – ThatGuy343 Feb 12 '15 at 08:08
@ThatGuy343 yeah the position, forgot to add that. – Trevi Awater Feb 12 '15 at 08:09
Is there any way around the 16x16 width limit? 100% does not fit and is cut off. – ThatGuy343 Feb 12 '15 at 08:12
@ThatGuy343 You could change the font size, http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18249592/how-to-change-font-size-in-drawstring-java – Trevi Awater Feb 12 '15 at 08:13
horizontally the icon could exceed 16. – MartianMartian Nov 30 '21 at 15:03

System tray text instead of icon

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