Hey all, Any news on this? Can anyone help me with this little app?
Thanks! Eugene On Dec 12, 11:29 am, Eugene Gordin <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/growldiscuss?hl=en. > > -- > _______________________________ > Eugene Gordin, EIT > Doctoral Candidate > Civil and Environmental Engineering > University of California, Berkeleywww.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.
