So to summarize, you want to be able to use Growl as a data source, and to be 
able to parse the contents of your notifications right?

On Dec 4, 2011, at 9:17 AM, Navin Mishra <[email protected]> wrote:

> Thanks for response Chris. My goal is to execute a custom business 
> application logic whenever a growl notification is shown by a particular 
> application. Say, for instance, mail application notifies about a new mail 
> and "Smoke" display Growl plug-in shows the notification. I want to hook into 
> that notification, get the notification text and do a Google search. 
> Referring the sample display plugin, I can do all that but it it shows its 
> own UI which I don't want; I want to do my custom action but delegate to the 
> "default" or a named Growl display plug-in(say "Smoke") for the purpose of 
> showing the notification. Is it possible?
> 
> If not, is it possible to have a non-UI Growl plug-in that can watch for all 
> the notifications sent by all applications and do a custom action?
> 
> Thanks again and regards
> 
> Navin
> 
> From: Chris Forsythe <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected] 
> Sent: Saturday, December 3, 2011 6:24 PM
> Subject: Re: [growl-discuss] Newbie: Hooking into Growl notification sent by 
> an application
> 
> Hi Navin,
> 
> Can you explain what your goal here is? I've read the question since you sent 
> it and as of yet I can't wrap my head around what you're trying to accomplish.
> 
> -- 
> Chris Forsythe
> 
> On Thursday, December 1, 2011 at 4:55 PM, NM wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I need to parse the growl notification text sent by an application
>> and use a web service. Ideally I need to hook into the notification
>> text as seen by whatever display plug-in that is set as the target and
>> just do my custom action. Is it possible at all? Or, if I must write a
>> Growl display plug-in and set it explicitly as the target for that
>> application's notification, is it possible to still defer the display
>> of the notification UI to the "default" display plug-in? Or the
>> display plug-on must show its own UI and it can't chain into another
>> Display plug-in?
>> 
>> Also, is there any documentation on the Growl plug-in API? All I could
>> find was the source of the Sample display plug-in.
>> 
>> Thanks in advance and regards
>> 
>> Navin
>> 
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