Growl messages with AIR

michiel — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 20:21:40 +0000

For an AIR application that I’m creating (more about that later), I needed some way to show the users some event happened while the application was running in the background. So what’s better on Mac OS than showing growl notifications ?

Adobe has worked together with the Growl team to add support for AIR and flash applications.
Mike Chambers has put together an open source project named as3growl which provides an API to work with the new Growl build.

The as3growl library is an ActionScript library that leverages new TCP socket communication functionality within the Growl notification framework to allow Adobe AIR and Flash applications to register with, send notifications, and receive events from the Growl service.

You can grab the latest as3growl here or with the svn :

1	svn checkout http://as3growl.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ as3growl-read-only

The support for AIR and flash is not yet in the release version, so the first step is download the nightly build from growl :

http://bitbucket.org/evands/growl/changeset/eb9d3e4d9fa3/

Unzip

Open Growl.xcodeproj in Xcode 3.1

Set target to “Deployment”

Build

Double click the “Build/Deployment/Growl.prefPane” file to install the compiled Growl.

To start using the as3growl API, you can check out the example on the wiki:
http://code.google.com/p/as3growl/wiki/UsingTheLibrary

I’ll probably post a little tutorial later!

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Growl messages with AIR