Growl notifications

[naftali]

Function to create growl notifications easily - download and install Growl from growl.info and make sure you also follow the instructions to install the "growlnotify" extra.

Growl is a nifty thing that creates popups, works with lots of applications. Personally I think it'd be cool to integrate it into Mudlet directly, maybe even through the UI, ESPECIALLY if the API for telling if the window is in focus ever happens.

Anyway, usage:

growlNotify("Test","Hey guys, this is a test!")
creates:

That's pretty much all there is to it. Something to note is that you need to use the full path of growlnotify, so if you install it somewhere other than the default place (/usr/local/bin/growlnotify) you need to change the path in the function here. Also, this currently works for Mac, dunno how I could make it work for Windows or Linux so if you do then please, post the changed script.

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function growlNotify(title, message)
	local path, icon
	path = "/usr/local/bin/growlnotify"
	icon = "-a Mudlet.app"
	message = message or ""
	title = title or "test"
	os.execute( path .. " " .. icon .. " -m '" .. message .. "' " .. title )
end

[Knute]

Linux has notify-send, that works with the notification daemon, or notify-osd.

And a quick search on my arch system shows a haskell-growlnotify package.

[demonnic]

Here's one using kdialog for KDE.

you could also use it in gnome, if you have kdialog installed.

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function kdeNotify(title, message, timeout)
        local path
        path = "/usr/bin/kdialog"
        message = message or ""
        title = title or "Mudlet"
        if type(timeout) ~= "number" then timeout = 10 end
        os.execute( path .. " --title \"" .. title .."\" --passivepopup \"" .. message .. "\" .. timeout )
end

[Jules]

Is there a Growl application for Windows? Or do you just have to use the pop-up bubbles from the system tray on the task bar? And if that's only the case... How do you use the system tray bubbles?

This is a pretty sweet function, I'm quite impressed!

[Vadi]

I posted the ones for Linux half a year ago: http://forums.mudlet.org/viewtopic.php? ... lit=notify

[Denarii]

For Windows, there's Snarl.

[demonnic]

yeah, but I couldn't find notify-send on the box I was on right that moment, so I used kdialog. hence why I specified that one for kde users. heh.

[Alexander Divine]

After a couple of minutes messing with Snarl, here's what I came up with.

You'll also need to download the Snarl_CMD application, found here. For ease I simply extracted it into my C: drive.

Notable issue: When calling os.execute() you get this brief flash of the command shell window opening. Annoying as hell, but the script still works!

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function snarlNotify(title, message)
  local path, command
  path = "C:\\Snarl_CMD.exe"
  command = " snShowMessage 10 "
  message = message or ""
  title = title or "Mudlet Notification"
  os.execute(path .. command .. '\"' .. title .. '\" \"' .. message .. '\"')
end

[Rakon]

Courtesy of Vadi, and with my simple modifications, here is one for Debian/Ubuntu systems using notify-send:

It will only send the notification if the main Mudlet window is NOT in focus.

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function notify (...)
 if hasFocus() == false then
   os.execute(string.format("%s", [[notify-send --icon="/usr/share/app-install/icons/mudlet.png" "Mudlet" "]] .. ... .. [["]]))
 end -- if
end -- notify

[naftali]

I'll be damned. When did someone add in a hasFocus() function? And when are these things gonna be included in the bloody manual?!? (note: this last is not meant to be accusing Vadi of slacking, I know it's hard to keep it updated)