Hi Caius, Your solution could work too. The key is simplicity. Just a quick and instant growl notification, with preferences to start on login and enable/disable. A menubar indicator, along with preferences link would be nice too.
Thanks again guys, I can't wait to use it! Eugene On Friday, December 11, 2009, Caius Durling <[email protected]> wrote: > On 12 Dec 2009, at 01:10, briandunnington wrote: >> i am a would-be Cocoa programmer and this sounds doable, but i did >> have one design question - what type of 'app' should this be? i mean, >> it probably doesnt need much (if any) UI, and doesnt need to show up >> in the dock. it could be a menu item like GrowlMenu, but (at least in >> the Windows world), people dont like too many icons cluttering up >> their menu bar/task tray. what is the OSX equivalent of a simple UI- >> less app that runs automatically on startup but is not even close to >> something like a full fledged daemon? maybe it is just up to the user >> to add it to their list of apps to run on startup? > > > I've been writing an app like that this week, currently it's a GUI-less full > cocoa app. I've then been writing a prefpane wrapper to control it as a > background app so it's moderately easy to install/start/stop from the > end-user's POV. > > I'm still fairly new to the cocoa way though, so this may not be best, but if > I was going to do this app I'd be tempted to do it the same way. The > alternative is have it as a menu/dockless app, but when you double-click the > app when it's already running it gives you a preferences window, complete > with a quit button or something. > > C > --- > Caius Durling > [email protected] > +44 (0) 7960 268 100 > http://caius.name/ > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Growl Discuss" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/growldiscuss?hl=en. > > > -- _______________________________ Eugene Gordin, EIT Doctoral Candidate Civil and Environmental Engineering University of California, Berkeley www.eugenegordin.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Growl Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/growldiscuss?hl=en.
