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English => Feature requests => Topic started by: hardtraks on December 06, 2005, 03:54:12 PM
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http://growl.info/ (http://Growl) is a global notification system for Mac OS X. Any application can send a notification to Growl, which will display an attractive message on your screen.
A good way to know when you have finish a download, connect or disconnect a server, etc
:baby:
Santiago
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aMule won't be supporting Growl any time soon. aMule is a cross-platform program and can't really be customized to take advantage of the neat features of each platform it runs on.
That said, however, it's possible to cobble something together. In CVS and the coming 2.1.0, aMule will run a command of the user's choosing when a download completes. If Growl has any sort of command-line interface, you can use that to produce a Growl notification on download completion. I just checked, and Growl has an AppleScript interface (http://growl.info/documentation/applescript-support.php), and that can be invoked from the command line.
Also, aMule has the Online Signature feature which is really just a mechanism for external programs to check on the status of aMule by reading a simple text file. Somebody already used that to display aMule's upload and download speeds on the Mac OS X desktop, using another third-party tool. Sadly, I can't find the thread.
Check out the Dashboard Widget (http://forum.amule.org/thread.php?threadid=7000) somebody made for aMule, too.
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Ok i m gonna check too this script.
Thanks for your quick answer ;)
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I finally actually tried Growl and it seems pretty neat. It comes with a couple of Finder folder action scripts. You can for instance use the "add - new item growl alert with filenames.scpt" script to get a notification whenever a new file is completed and moved to your incoming folder. This notification can, for instance, be a semi-transparent window on your screen or an email send to an address of your choice.
What would be really handy was if you could get a notification whenever someone sends you a (first) message in aMule. I often only notice messages after an hour or more. For that to work, aMule would need a feature to execute a shell command when someone sends you a message. I'm sure useful things could be done with this on other platforms as well.
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lionel, did you check preferences->events lately?
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I did actually see it, but I also managed to completely forget about it in the meantime. ;)
Well, this is cool. If time permits I'l' try to put together a shell script that sends chat notifications to Growl via AppleScript.