Comments on: FlexTime + Growl == No Procrastination http://www.red-sweater.com/blog/177/flextime-growl-no-procrastination Mac & Technology Writings by Daniel Jalkut Sat, 27 Feb 2010 22:57:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Daniel Jalkut http://www.red-sweater.com/blog/177/flextime-growl-no-procrastination/comment-page-1#comment-13223 Daniel Jalkut Thu, 31 Aug 2006 12:31:57 +0000 http://www.red-sweater.com/blog/177/flextime-growl-no-procrastination#comment-13223 Thanks everybody, for the feedback. It sounds like I won't be doing any harm if I at least add a preference that says something like "Use Growl to display text messages," and only enable that preference when and if Growl is installed/enabled for FlexTime. Thanks everybody, for the feedback.

It sounds like I won’t be doing any harm if I at least add a preference that says something like “Use Growl to display text messages,” and only enable that preference when and if Growl is installed/enabled for FlexTime.

]]> By: Volker http://www.red-sweater.com/blog/177/flextime-growl-no-procrastination/comment-page-1#comment-13200 Volker Thu, 31 Aug 2006 07:17:28 +0000 http://www.red-sweater.com/blog/177/flextime-growl-no-procrastination#comment-13200 Hi, to chime in here: I added basic Growl support to one of my apps - only displaying a notification for three different events - and it was really easy. It just took me a couple of minutes and it was working as intended. Catching events from growl should be easy as well. I see another problem that is maybe to be considered: As programmer I invest a lot of time and thoughts in how to make a good interface to exchange important messages with the user. I do not only have to plan the sheets or windows, but also how to catch attention etc.... and then there comes growl which might handle everything completly different than I would do and which could interfere with my logic of getting the users attention... Volker Hi,

to chime in here: I added basic Growl support to one of my apps – only displaying a notification for three different events – and it was really easy. It just took me a couple of minutes and it was working as intended. Catching events from growl should be easy as well.

I see another problem that is maybe to be considered: As programmer I invest a lot of time and thoughts in how to make a good interface to exchange important messages with the user. I do not only have to plan the sheets or windows, but also how to catch attention etc…. and then there comes growl which might handle everything completly different than I would do and which could interfere with my logic of getting the users attention…

Volker

]]> By: Chanpory http://www.red-sweater.com/blog/177/flextime-growl-no-procrastination/comment-page-1#comment-13156 Chanpory Wed, 30 Aug 2006 18:54:23 +0000 http://www.red-sweater.com/blog/177/flextime-growl-no-procrastination#comment-13156 Daniel, I agree with Chris's Growl integration suggestions. I don't think it has to be too much more than just passing text through. I'm not sure how much you can do in Growl though. The only other thing might be that when a notification comes up in Growl, you're able to click on it, to edit the activity in FlexTime. Daniel, I agree with Chris’s Growl integration suggestions. I don’t think it has to be too much more than just passing text through. I’m not sure how much you can do in Growl though. The only other thing might be that when a notification comes up in Growl, you’re able to click on it, to edit the activity in FlexTime.

]]> By: Chris Messina http://www.red-sweater.com/blog/177/flextime-growl-no-procrastination/comment-page-1#comment-13015 Chris Messina Mon, 28 Aug 2006 22:17:38 +0000 http://www.red-sweater.com/blog/177/flextime-growl-no-procrastination#comment-13015 Well, I guess it means that it works automagically... so many of my apps just support Growl out of the box -- and that someone had to write a script for it means that there would be some value in native integration. What I'd like to see is the ability, as I can with other apps, to determine which notifications get sent to Growl -- and how they're presented. Especially with the productivity hack mentioned, it seems like a no-brainer -- and it should be fairly trivial to add support. To the best of my knowledge, your description "passing text through" I think is pretty close to how it works, though I've not actually programmed such myself. Anyway, keep me posted on 1.1! Well, I guess it means that it works automagically… so many of my apps just support Growl out of the box — and that someone had to write a script for it means that there would be some value in native integration.

What I’d like to see is the ability, as I can with other apps, to determine which notifications get sent to Growl — and how they’re presented. Especially with the productivity hack mentioned, it seems like a no-brainer — and it should be fairly trivial to add support. To the best of my knowledge, your description “passing text through” I think is pretty close to how it works, though I’ve not actually programmed such myself.

Anyway, keep me posted on 1.1!

]]> By: Daniel Jalkut http://www.red-sweater.com/blog/177/flextime-growl-no-procrastination/comment-page-1#comment-12803 Daniel Jalkut Sat, 26 Aug 2006 13:06:52 +0000 http://www.red-sweater.com/blog/177/flextime-growl-no-procrastination#comment-12803 Hi Chris - the plan right now is to integrate Growl support for the 1.1 update, so hopefully that won't be terribly long from now. I need to look more carefully into Growl support and figure out how much functionality needs to be exposed to FlexTime users. If it's just a matter of "passing text through" then that would be one thing, but if there are lots of options that might need to be exposed, then I'll have to rework the UI in FlexTime a little bit for the "Show Text" cues. Do you have any comments about this? What does "growl support" mean to you? Mainly not having to go to the trouble of writing a custom script to interface with it? Thanks, Daniel Hi Chris – the plan right now is to integrate Growl support for the 1.1 update, so hopefully that won’t be terribly long from now. I need to look more carefully into Growl support and figure out how much functionality needs to be exposed to FlexTime users. If it’s just a matter of “passing text through” then that would be one thing, but if there are lots of options that might need to be exposed, then I’ll have to rework the UI in FlexTime a little bit for the “Show Text” cues.

Do you have any comments about this? What does “growl support” mean to you? Mainly not having to go to the trouble of writing a custom script to interface with it?

Thanks,
Daniel

]]> By: Chris Messina http://www.red-sweater.com/blog/177/flextime-growl-no-procrastination/comment-page-1#comment-12793 Chris Messina Sat, 26 Aug 2006 08:08:11 +0000 http://www.red-sweater.com/blog/177/flextime-growl-no-procrastination#comment-12793 So how long until you add support for Growl... that change might just push me over to buying FlexTime... ;) So how long until you add support for Growl… that change might just push me over to buying FlexTime… ;)

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