Yes, Growl is open source. If you click on the Help link in our menu bar at the top, hit cmd+f and then type "source" you will find the link to how to pull source from our repo. I'm not sure how this is "too much research". Besides that, you have the project lead and one of the main developers replying to you on this thread, so if you have any questions we're happy to answer. But drop the defeatist attitude man. You have a task you want to complete, a goal in mind, get to it.
Like Daniel said, we really don't have a lot of people making actual visual displays in cocoa. Mostly because the webkit based displays cover about 95% of the use cases. You have an exception to that which, which is fine, but if you want to get it done you're going to have to do a little legwork on your own. This is how open source works outside of github. Let us know what questions you have, we're happy to help so long as we keep things positive here. Chris On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 4:23 AM, Thomas Schlosser <[email protected]>wrote: > Is Growl Open Source? I did not see a reference to a repository. > Does Growl itself use the same plugin technique for the display styles or > could I just learn from it how the view is filled with content? > > On style section (http://growl.info/styles) there are dozens of styles, > but I could only find HTML/CSS based ones. > > Currently it seems too much "research" for me without having a single > working example project. > I just found one in Github, which seems to use the API to receive the > Growl notifications but does copy them into NSUserNotificationCenter > instead of displaying it. https://github.com/stigi/MountainGrowl > SO I think I can learn the plugin technique from this but not how to fill > the frame for the Growl display. > > > 2013/3/31 Chris Forsythe <[email protected]> > >> Let's keep the conversation here. You should have plenty of examples by >> simply downloading the Growl source through mercurial. :) >> >> -- >> Chris Forsythe >> >> On Sunday, March 31, 2013 at 6:00 AM, Thomas Schlosser wrote: >> >> Hi Chris, >> sorry, I don't want to crosspost too much - there is a conversation in >> Twitter (@GrowlMac) as well. >> >> I downloaded SDK 2.0.1 and found the Plugin Dev folder. >> But after reading the readme's twice (not yet trying what happens in >> Xcode) I feel very uncomfortable with this. I don't understand the basic >> structure yet (basically I would expect some main method which the plugin >> has to implement to receive calls from Growl to display a notification; >> delegation pattern), what has to be produced in the Xcode product finally >> and how it is "linked" to Growl (installation). >> I have never seen this template technique before (but maybe it shows up >> like the Apple preinstalled templates - which would be great). >> >> For my special way to approach similar things it would be phantastic to >> have a minimal (!) Xcode project which ideally works out of the box. Maybe >> the preferences part isn't even needed for this (optional?). >> >> And/or a walk through like for Webkit based style "plugin". >> >> Thanks >> Thomas >> >> >> On Sunday, March 31, 2013 7:32:19 AM UTC+2, Christopher Forsythe wrote: >> >> We have a brand new bit of work in Growl 2 and the accompanying SDK >> that should be a good start. Look in the 2.0.1 SDK at the Plugin >> Development directory. Let us know if you have any questions. >> >> I don't know how you would address this with a webkit display either. >> >> -- >> Chris Forsythe >> @The_Tick <http://twitter.com/The_Tick> >> >> On Saturday, March 30, 2013 at 6:47 AM, Thomas Schlosser wrote: >> >> On this page >> (http://growl.info/**documentation/webkit.php<http://growl.info/documentation/webkit.php>) >> I found out that besides the CSS-based display styles there must be another >> one based on Objective.C. >> >> I couldn't find any examples, how-tos or documemtation about this. >> I have seen some examples integrating Growl via the API / framework into >> existing Cocoa applications, but I just want to have better control on the >> output. >> >> Any places you could me point to? >> >> >> FYI: What I want to do? >> Basically I want at least to have control about formatting (at least line >> breaks and spacing) in the text part of the notification. >> Example from terminal: cal | growlnotifier -t Calendar >> All the blanks are not displayed as HTML does not render them. But I >> can't just replace them with because these are escaped and displayed >> as text. >> Any hints on this are also very welcome! >> >> Thanks >> Thomas >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Growl Discuss" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to growldiscuss...@**googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/**group/growldiscuss?hl=en<http://groups.google.com/group/growldiscuss?hl=en> >> . >> For more options, visit >> https://groups.google.com/**groups/opt_out<https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out> >> . >> >> >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Growl Discuss" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/growldiscuss?hl=en. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the >> Google Groups "Growl Discuss" group. >> To unsubscribe from this topic, visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/growldiscuss/8MiYy1BdUUw/unsubscribe?hl=en >> . >> To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to >> [email protected]. >> >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/growldiscuss?hl=en. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Growl Discuss" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/growldiscuss?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- Chris Forsythe @The_Tick <http://twitter.com/The_Tick> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Growl Discuss" group. 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