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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon dergachev

Deal with growl not being present

Open dergachev opened this issue 12 years ago • 3 comments

http://dl-web.dropbox.com/u/29440342/screenshots/SSWTTH-Screen_Shot_2012.12.6-0.20.18.png

A friend on ML with no growl had to comment out the whole growl section to make it work. Surprising given I have a check for it.

Related issue: #5 Clickable Growl notifications

dergachev avatar Dec 06 '12 05:12 dergachev

Another reported issue about this problem, on Lion: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/growldiscuss/Vn3-8SFGb9E It was never responded to.

According to http://growl.info/documentation/applescript-support.php, the check we already do for GrowlHelper should be sufficient.

Testing this myself by uninstalling growl as per: http://growl.info/documentation/growl-package-removal.php#1.2easy Was able to reproduce easily enough... whenever I tried to save (that is compile) the appelscript.

dergachev avatar Dec 07 '12 17:12 dergachev

Turns out that AppleScripts are compiled and require linking in the dictionaries (effectively headers) of any application referenced by a "tell" statement. So at compile time, you must have that application installed.

More info:

  • http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6275832/get-rid-of-choose-application-dialog-when-app-couldnt-be-found-in-applescript
  • http://macscripter.net/viewtopic.php?id=24569

There doesn't seem to be much of a work-around for the compiling scenario. The workaround for checking if GrowlHelperApp is present will help for the run-time scenario, but it will require distributing the pre-compiled copy-public-url.scpt file.

We should also document the growl dependency in the README.md, and test with future versions of Growl (I have 1.2.2).

dergachev avatar Dec 07 '12 17:12 dergachev

Just got ML myself. Notifications look good.

No bindings from Applescript except via growl 2.0 (which I don't want, I think.) But there's this handy library/script:

https://github.com/alloy/terminal-notifier https://github.com/alloy/terminal-notifier/downloads

To use the program, I tested the following (it works!)

~/Downloads/terminal-notifier_1.4.2$ ./terminal-notifier.app/Contents/MacOS/terminal-notifier -message "Hello, this is my message" -title "Message Title" -execute "open -a Preview.app ~/Dropbox/Public/screenshots/AJPWJD-Screen_Shot_2012.12.10-16.18.45.png"

Can't change the icon without recompiling.

Have to decide if I want to force the user to install it manually, or to auto-install this as part of the setup.

dergachev avatar Dec 13 '12 06:12 dergachev