Re: [ANN] Growl initial release
Re: [ANN] Growl initial release
- Subject: Re: [ANN] Growl initial release
- From: Brian Ganninger <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 15:00:55 -0500
Greetings List!
I'd just like to take a moment to second Chris' recommendation of
Growl. Infinite Nexus recently released DriveGauge 3.2
(www.infinitenexus.com/dg/) with Growl support and it was not only
simple but useful and powerful with a positive response from users.
In 35 to 50 lines of code and adding the framework linking you too can
be Growl savvy, it's not terribly tough. There are many different
languages represented in the examples to get started with, and it's
helpful in testing when you screw up and need to know if Growl still
works ;-) It's true usefulness is evidenced by the wide range of
products that have already employed it or announced forthcoming support
in the few short weeks it has been publicly available: IM clients, IRC
clients, iTunes controllers, mail monitors, launchers, P2P clients, and
many other applications for a variety of tasks. Its flexibility and
customizability are incredible and 3 new display plugins are already
under active development.
Instead of developing your own popup notifications take a moment to
consider if Growl (or your own additions to Growl) can address the
situation with that much less work and that much more finesse. That's
just my $.02 USD, take it for what it's worth.
- Brian Ganninger
Lead Software Engineer,
Infinite Nexus Software
[ software beyond limits ]
http://www.infinitenexus.com/
On Sep 21, 2004, at 3:26 PM, Christopher Forsythe wrote:
Hi everyone,
My name is Chris, I'm project lead of The Growl Project over at
http://growl.info. It's a global notifications system that we are
trying to make useful for users and developers. So far it has Cocoa,
Carbon, Tcl, AppleScript, Python and Perl support, and we are
accepting bindings for any other language that could be useful. The
idea behind it is that a notification is sent from an app, through
distributed notifications, and if allowed in the prefpane, will be
displayed in a uniform and user customizable manner.
As this is an initial release, we don't have many display plugins
as of yet, but are working on those. Also, any suggestions or help is
appreciated. There is a discuss list over at email@hidden if
anyone is interested, and I can field questions as well.
Thanks,
Chris Forsythe
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