Make your iCal Alarms Growl!

[subtleGradient]

Howdy.

Just got Growl working for alarms in iCal.
http://subtlegradient.com/articles/2006 ... cal-how-to
This is a modified version of this original how-to.
http://origa.me.uk/blog/?p=6

Enjoy!

[highpass]

Excellent, ta very much.

[The_Tick]

You know we have a iCal script shipping with Growl right?

[subtleGradient]

You know we have a iCal script shipping with Growl right?

Yep. But it doesn't do anything I would actually need.

It notifies once for every event it finds for today.

The one I modified effectively replaces the message alarm with a Growl message alarm.

You can launch a script with the open alarm on an iCal event, but iCal doesn't pass through any variables, so it's pretty useless. This script patches the Mail script allowing you to keep the normal email functionality AND be able to have Growl alerts with all the same variables that are available to the Mail script.

Neat, huh?

[notorious]

Does this still work in Leopard?

[The_Tick]

Does this still work in Leopard?

You're going to have to try it to find out.

[Wooden Brain Concepts]

You might want to try OmniGrowl. It provides iCal notifications without needing to set any alarms. A Leopard version should be out soon.

(Apologies if this is seen to be an inappropriate plug. But it is relevant to this thread. Overly sensitive here now. ;-)

[heewa]

The iCal email hack solution doesn't work for me under Leopard (10.5). I found a script that does, and modified it a bit. This works in Tiger (10.4) and Leopard, and it doesn't require messing with the iCal application files (which get clobbered on an update to iCal).

To use, drop the script anywhere, and set an alarm that runs this script (same script for different events, you don't have to make a copy of the script, modify it, or anything at all).

iCal Growl Notifications[/url]

[lalcan]

<shameless plug>
You could always try GrowlIt, it's free!

lalcan
</shameless plug>

[polycat33]

Sorry to dig this thread back up, but I was stoked to see the post two above mine about a script that works on Leopard for getting iCal notifications in Growl, but the link is dead. Anyone know of working scripts for use in Leopard?

[jfralin]

Sorry to dig this thread back up, but I was stoked to see the post two above mine about a script that works on Leopard for getting iCal notifications in Growl, but the link is dead. Anyone know of working scripts for use in Leopard?

I tried the GrowlIt script in the post above yours. It works occasionally for me but more often than not I get an error message saying that the script did not "execute properly" and that it "did not open or did not finish running." But when it works it does exactly what I want it to do. If anyone has any suggestions on how to make it work properly or any other alternatives I'd greatly appreciate it.

[bogstep]

I'm also using Growlit. I noticed that iCal event alarms with growlit say "such and such event in 540 minutes" instead of showing it in hours and minutes. How would I change it to show in hours and minutes instead of just total minutes?