[MACTCL] Growl and Tcl

[Kevin W. <kw...@co...>]

Hi all,

I'm posting this here because a few of the list members make use of the 
Growl notification system (http://growl.info) in their apps.

Growl has just released a new version that makes significant changes in 
its API--these changes are for compatibility with Mac App Store 
requirements and also to put the system on firmer developmental footing 
moving forward. Unfortunately, these changes also break many of the 
third-party language bindings for Growl.

I've been informally maintaining two separate Tcl-Growl integration 
packages--one, macgrowl, is of my own creation and is a Tcl wrapper for 
Growl's AppleScript interface. The other, tclgrowl, was a "native" 
Objective-C library developed by the Growl team itself but was largely 
abandoned (I cobbled a TEA-compliant package out of it and host it at my 
SVN repo at SF). Neither package works with the new version of Growl.

Since many of my commercial Tcl/Tk apps support Growl, I'm going to be 
putting together some sort of new package for Growl integration with 
Tcl, but I haven't yet decided how to proceed. Growl's "native" 
notification system uses a new network protocol that is completely 
incompatible with the old system. Its new AppleScript API requires fewer 
changes, but may not play nice with Apple's new "sandboxing" 
requirements in Lion and the Mac App Store.

I don't yet have a timeline for implementing a new Growl package; it 
partly depends on how much work will be involved. I've asked the Growl 
team for some guidance on this. In the meantime, once I do have 
something ready, it will be released open-source somewhere, and I'll 
post an announcement here.

Thanks,
Kevin

-- 
Kevin Walzer
Code by Kevin
http://www.codebykevin.com