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Growl Fortune?
Posted: Mon Dec 18, 2006 3:11 am
by libwolf
Hi All,
I've very much a newbie with writing applescripts.
What I'd like to do is create a script that will get Growl to pop a Fortune onscreen.
I've been reading through the included scripts, but haven't had any luck yet.
Can someone point me in the right direction?
Thanks,
Posted: Mon Dec 18, 2006 4:43 am
by bgannin
Posted: Mon Dec 18, 2006 6:35 am
by libwolf
Thank you!
It works!
If anyone is interested
here is the script I cludged together. Seems to work best with the Music Video Display.
And if anyone wants to give a few pointers how how I can improve it, it would be greatly appreciated.
Libwolf
Posted: Mon Dec 18, 2006 4:37 pm
by yelly
well done for a first timer
for starters, you will want to throw away all of the "another test notification" stuff, or I can just do it for you
Code: Select all
repeat 5 times
set myText to do shell script "/sw/bin/fortune"
tell application "GrowlHelperApp"
-- Make a list of all the notification types
-- that this script will ever send:
set the allNotificationsList to ¬
{"Fortune"}
-- Make a list of the notifications
-- that will be enabled by default.
-- Those not enabled by default can be enabled later
-- in the 'Applications' tab of the growl prefpane.
set the enabledNotificationsList to ¬
{"Fortune"}
-- Register our script with growl.
-- You can optionally (as here) set a default icon
-- for this script's notifications.
register as application ¬
"Fortune" all notifications allNotificationsList ¬
default notifications enabledNotificationsList ¬
icon of application "Terminal"
-- Send a Notification...
notify with name ¬
"Fortune" title ¬
"Fortune" description ¬
myText application name "Fortune"
end tell
end repeat
you may also want to change the icon for your script, possibly to a picture of a fortune cookie or something.
Posted: Tue Dec 19, 2006 4:03 am
by libwolf
Hey all,
Got to love the Pre-Christmas slowdown - gives me a chance to work on this.
I've been looking at
AppleScript Support but can't get the icon to work.
Can someone point me to a script that has an external icon? Not a Application icon, but an actual picture?
Thanks in advance,
Libwolf