Re: Has anyone gotten Growl 2.0 to work successfully with Sparrow 1.6.4 in Mountain Lion?

[Rudy Richter]

Do they have two versions of Sparrow or something? I just downloaded 1.6.4 from their website and it has a "Use Growl notifications" checkbox on the general tab of its settings. I don't have Growl turned on so it presented me with the built-in Mist style that the Growl framework uses.

-rudy

On Wednesday, October 31, 2012 10:48:45 AM UTC-4, Torley wrote:

I haven't found a comfortable successor for Sparrow yet, and I was using Sparrow 1.6.1, which does work with Growl 2.0 on Mountain Lion.

However, Sparrow 1.6.4 removed the "Use Growl notifications" option and seems like it can only use Notification Center. This is troublesome for me, as I use Growl with Prowl to forward to iOS devices.

Has anyone gotten Growl 2.0 to work successfully with Sparrow 1.6.4 in Mountain Lion?

Thanks for any advice or alternate, elegant solutions.

[Christopher Forsythe]

Does Sparrow show up in the applications tab in Growl?

Chris

On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 9:22 AM, Ryan Cordes <rolli...@gmail.com> wrote:

I have the same problem.

On Wednesday, October 31, 2012 7:48:45 AM UTC-7, Torley wrote:

I haven't found a comfortable successor for Sparrow yet, and I was using Sparrow 1.6.1, which does work with Growl 2.0 on Mountain Lion.

However, Sparrow 1.6.4 removed the "Use Growl notifications" option and seems like it can only use Notification Center. This is troublesome for me, as I use Growl with Prowl to forward to iOS devices.

Has anyone gotten Growl 2.0 to work successfully with Sparrow 1.6.4 in Mountain Lion?

Thanks for any advice or alternate, elegant solutions.

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[Rudy Richter]

So I just ran sparrow on 10.8 and it appears you are not given a choice to use Growl anymore.  On 10.7 the checkbox says "use growl notifications" and on 10.8 it just says "use notifications".  This tells me that they have put the conditional check in the Sparrow side of things that says if you're on 10.8 only use notification center.

this issue would have to be raised with the Sparrow developers since the change is entirely in Sparrow.

-rudy

[Ryan Cordes]

I'm running Sparrow 1.6.4 and 10.7.5 with growl 2.0 and it only says "Notifications" in the Sparrow settings. Sparrow is enabled in the application list in Growl. I'll do some more digging.

[Christopher Forsythe]

So to follow up on this, there is definitely a check in Sparrow to see if it's on 10.8. If it is, then Sparrow will just use NC, and that's it.

However, if anyone wanted to they could make a plugin to basically override this, based on this tweet:

https://twitter.com/dinh_viet_hoa/status/265826830525792256

The developer of Sparrow has no new release on the mac planned, but I have asked that if they do put another release out, then to please make Sparrow work with Growl on 10.8. So here is my suggestion:

1) Let the Sparrow developers know that you want Growl support (do not reply on the developers directly unless you already know them, use whatever their official support channel is). This will give them a better way to know how to prioritize this for their own uses.

2) If someone is both a Sparrow and Growl super fan, they can make a plugin to make this work. Something like this may work:

You can probably create a class with a +load method that implements method swizzle:

http://www.mikeash.com/pyblog/friday-qa-2010-01-29-method-replacement-for-fun-and-profit.html

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5371601/how-do-i-implement-method-swizzling

You would want to override methods for this class: NSUserNotificationCenter

methods:

-scheduleNotification:

-scheduleNotifications:

-deliverNotification:

-deliverNotifications:

They most likely only use -deliverNotification: though.

This all said, unfortunately we do not have any bandwidth to make a plugin for Sparrow. If someone does make a plugin for Sparrow, and it is open source (Growl is open source, Sparrow is build on open source, and we can possibly do a cursory view of the source (no promises)) we'd be happy to link to it somewhere. :)

At this point this is as far as we're going to investigate this issue. Thank you everyone for looking into this. If someone makes a plugin for Sparrow, please reply to this thread or email me directly.

Chris

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