Yep, the long-term plan is to provide a work-around that doesn't require growl--which you're absolutely welcome to implement if you have the inclination :)
I'm actually surprised that there hasn't been an alert on about:ubiquity or somesuch that's warned you about growl, I thought we added that in 0.1.1 or something... Ah well. Sorry for that confusion! - Atul On 1/13/09 1:43 PM, Edwin Khodabakchian wrote: > Atul. Thank you very much for your responsiveness. I am on OS X but I > do not have Growl. Is the long term plan to depend on growl or will > there be a way to a simpler semi-transparent message service like the > one described here: > http://halobrite.com/blog/using-ubiquity-to-replace-alert/? > > On Jan 13, 1:18 pm, Atul Varma<[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hmm, interesting that displayMessage() isn't displaying anything on your >> end. What OS are you using? If it's OS X, do you have Growl >> installed? On OS X it should be a Growl notification, on Windows it >> should be a "toaster" notification at the bottom-right of the screen, >> and I'm not sure what it is on Linux. FWIW, the underlying >> implementation uses the Mozilla platform's nsIAlertsService: >> >> https://developer.mozilla.org/en/nsIAlertsService >> >> - Atul >> >> On 1/13/09 12:27 PM, Edwin Khodabakchian wrote: >> >> >>> Hi, >>> One more question: I have some commands which need to display a >>> message to the user. I saw in some of the samples the use of >>> displayMessage but that those not seem to show any message. Q1: is >>> display message the right method to display a message to the user? Q2: >>> can display message be called in a execute which has an async call? >>> (ie should displayMessage work even when the ubiquity window has been >>> closed? >>> Thank you, >>> Edwin >>> > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ubiquity-firefox" 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/ubiquity-firefox?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
