Dynamically Updating Icons Using SF Symbols (JXA)

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#1

I don't want to report this as a bug simply because I'm not sure if I'm doing this right. I'm reviewing some of my Touch Bar widgets, one of which is a weather widget that is updated via an external AppleScript that's executed by a system service that pulls data from my personal weather station. To update the widget(s), I use the following function:

function customTriggerUpdate(uuid, settings) {
    BTT.update_trigger(uuid, {
        json: JSON.stringify(settings),
        shared_secret: my_shared_secret,
    });
}

This is utilized throughout the script. To update the main weather display buttons, it runs:

// Contextual string modification to display rain emoji if the PWS is reporting a rain rate
    let sf_symbol = "thermometer";
    if (data_precip_rate_current > 0) {
        sf_symbol = "cloud.rain";
    }
    for (let i in main_temperature) {
        customTriggerUpdate(main_temperature[i], {
            BTTTouchBarButtonName: data_current_temperature_rounded + data_temperature_unit,
            BTTTriggerConfig: {
                BTTTouchBarButtonColor: bg_main,
                BTTTouchBarItemSFSymbolDefaultIcon: sf_symbol
            },
        });
    }

However, the icon does not change either way. Am I doing something incorrectly? Is there another way to change the icon, or is altering SF Icon configurations not implemented yet?

#2

This should be fixed in 3.560 alpha which will be online in about 10 minutes. (Get via check for alpha version updates)

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