field 'newWithPriority ERROR about hammerspoon HOT 4 OPEN

YOU RULE!!

Thnx so much!

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hs.menubar.newWithPriority hasn't actually worked correctly for quite a while now, and was removed. (It was based on private APIs for setting the menu's position/priority that no longer work.)

However, at the same time that it was removed, support was added for making hs.menubars stay in whatever position you ⌘ Command-drag them to. Basically, you need to switch to using hs.menubar.new, and setting the autosaveName parameter to some sort of unique identifier for that particular menu (or set it afterwards using the :autosaveName() method)¹. At that point, if you hold ⌘ Command and drag the menu to where you want it, it should stay there across Hammerspoon relaunches/reloads.

If you want to, you can even set the position programmatically, by modifying the preferences where that position is stored:

local menuName = 'My Whatever Menu'
local menuPosition = 500
-- ^ seems to be the distance between the right edge of the menubar, and the center(?) of the menu)
hs.settings.set('NSStatusItem Preferred Position ' .. menuName, menuPosition)
myMenu = hs.menubar.new(true, menuName) -- probably needs to be after that hs.setting.set call

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Ok, that seems to be the problem then.
I am REALLY a n00b with coding and HammerSpoon lua...:(
So first of thanks for the response!

Can you help me out with the new code to only show the SSID from the WiFi?!

So can you help me out how to configure this CONFIG I had working for some while:
OLD CODE:

wifiMenu = hs.menubar.newWithPriority(2147483645)
wifiMenu:setTitle(hs.wifi.currentNetwork())

wifiWatcher = nil

function ssidChanged()
    local wifiName = hs.wifi.currentNetwork()
    if wifiName then
        wifiMenu:setTitle(wifiName)
    else
        wifiMenu:setTitle("Wifi OFF")
    end
end

wifiWatcher = hs.wifi.watcher.new(ssidChanged):start()

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Most of that looks good. As far as I can tell, the only thing that needs to change is that very first line:

wifiMenu = hs.menubar.new(true, 'Wifi SSID')
--                    ^   ^     ^-- autosaveName (makes the menu stay in the same place across Hammerspoon launches)
--                    |   |         This can be whatever you want.
--                    |   |         It just controls the name for the preference where the position is saved.
--                    |   `-------- Start out showing it in the menubar
--                    |             (default, but needed to get autosaveName into the right argument)
--                    `------------ Use new() instead of newWithPriority()
-- Everything from here on is the same as what you have now:
wifiMenu:setTitle(hs.wifi.currentNetwork())

wifiWatcher = nil

function ssidChanged()
    local wifiName = hs.wifi.currentNetwork()
    if wifiName then
        wifiMenu:setTitle(wifiName)
    else
        wifiMenu:setTitle("Wifi OFF")
    end
end

wifiWatcher = hs.wifi.watcher.new(ssidChanged):start()

The menu will appear at the left end of the menu extras section, but at that point, you should be able to Cmd-drag the menu to wherever you want it and have it stay there.

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