Widget Reception?

[lakecoder]

Hi folks,

Can anyone think of a way for a Dashboard Widget to receive notifications? The concept is this:

Some process on another machine (server, iTunes, et. al.) processes events in some way. These events are not "the building is on fire" type events that need someone's immediate attention. Rather, how nice it would be to pull up a custom dashboard widget that has been receiving the event notifications silently, and then display them to me when I desire to look at them.

This would be a great way to look at logs or other event lists without having to do a refresh cycle each time.

Since Widgets are javascript I didn't see any direct way to incorporate growl into my "listener Widget".

Any ideas?

Thanks![/b]

[The_Tick]

We're actually going to try to ship a widget with .8 that does this.

[ofri]

Since Widgets are javascript I didn't see any direct way to incorporate growl into my "listener Widget".[/b]

Widgets can use objc/cocoa and therefor can talk to Growl