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I'm looking to write some Applescript which is run in response to Growl events.
e.g. email arrives from a given user which effects some change on my Nabaztag.
I can find plenty on the internet about creating and displaying Growl notifications with Applescript, but not listening for Growl notifications.
I don't have to use Applescript, but it seemed a nice thing to look at. The applications I'm looking at may or may not have Applescript dictionaries.
You can install growlnotify to do this.
$ ./some_program && growlnotify Title -m Message
Of course you would need to think of this before performing your command. The alternative (I don't know how to achieve this though) would be a Growl notification for every single command, which would be insanely annoying.
To simplify use of growlnotify for your use case, edit ~/bash_profile and add the following:
function long {
$@
/usr/local/bin/growlnotify Finished -m 'Done'
}
now you can simply long your_command (similar to sudo). Ctrl-A positions the cursor at the beginning of the line, if you (like me) always type the actual command first and need to add the prefix afterwards.
My bash-fu is unfortunately insufficient to be able to add the command to the growlnotify message
per @mankoff's comment to this answer:
You can simply type while the command is running, it gets executed afterwards. I created the following function for me:
function gn {
/usr/local/bin/growlnotify Finished -m "$@"
}
Use as gn svn.
I lead myself to the solution from a posting on Google Groups. Turns out you have to force Colloquy to run in 32-bit mode in order to get it to show up in the Growl .prefpane:
Then, you can customize the Colloquy notifications however you choose:
Best Answer
Just a thought, one option might be to use a display style in growl that would give you something to script off of.
So for notifications you want to have fire scripts just choose "MailMe" as the display style and then set up rules in mail.app that would let you respond to certain alerts coming from growl by firing off their related scripts.