Requires the Growl SDK for compilation, which can be obtained here.
I wanted to write a chrome extension for Google Music and The Hype Machine to display alerts in Growl, this is the first step.
This is an NPAPI based browser plugin that exposes 4 functions (register, isInstalled, isRunning, and notify) to JS.
Embed the plugin and then get the embed element, once that is done you can call the JS functions at will.
<embed type="application/x-jsgrowl" id="growl" hidden="true" />
var growl = document.getElementById('growl');
growl.register("application name");
growl.notify("title", "message");
growl.register("application name");
Registration is a mandatory step before you can call anything further.
The application name is what will show up in the growl preference pane under os x for customizing the alerts.
Register can be called with an optional url to an application icon. growl.register("my app", "http://myapp.com/myicon.png");
growl.isInstalled() - returns true if growl is installed.
growl.isRunning() - returns true if growl is running.
growl.notify("title", "message") - sends to growl with no icon.
growl.notify("title", "message" "image url") - sends to growl and attempts to download url with a 3 second timeout displaying the image as the growl icon
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