Leopard iChat & Growl

[MBX]

is there a way to make growl work with ichat in leopard?

or do we have to wait for chax leopard update?

 

[mnkeybsness]

maybe post on the growl support forum instead of bumping this too much.

 

[MBX]

maybe post on the growl support forum instead of bumping this too much.

well, i was hoping some people on here use it as well so that i could get some advice here instead over there and having to register an account just for that question.

so i'm asking the kind people of macforums again. what's the best way of making growl notification work with new ichat?

help much apperciated

 

[squeeks]

well, i was hoping some people on here use it as well so that i could get some advice here instead over there and having to register an account just for that question.

so i'm asking the kind people of macforums again. what's the best way of making growl notification work with new ichat?

help much apperciated

if it isnt obvious by now, apparently no one here knows..sorry we cant be of anymore help than that..

 

[adm58]

Here is a script I put together. Copy and paste this into Script Editor, then set up the appropriate event handlers in iChat:

---

using terms from application "iChat"

on buddy became available theBuddy
set appName to "iChat"
set whoDidIt to full name of theBuddy
set didWhat to "is available."
set buddyIcon to image of theBuddy
set the allNotificationsList to ¬
{"Buddy became available", "Buddy went offline", "Buddy went idle", "Buddy went away", "Message received"}
set the defaultNotificationsList to ¬
{"Buddy became available", "Buddy went offline", "Buddy went idle", "Buddy went away"}
tell application "GrowlHelperApp"
register as application appName all notifications allNotificationsList default notifications defaultNotificationsList icon of application appName
notify with name "Buddy became available" title whoDidIt application name appName description "is available" image buddyIcon
end tell
end buddy became available

on buddy became unavailable theBuddy
set appName to "iChat"
set whoDidIt to full name of theBuddy
set didWhat to "went offline."
set buddyIcon to image of theBuddy
set the allNotificationsList to ¬
{"Buddy became available", "Buddy went offline", "Buddy went idle", "Buddy went away", "Message received"}
set the defaultNotificationsList to ¬
{"Buddy became available", "Buddy went offline", "Buddy went idle", "Buddy went away"}
if status of theBuddy is equal to offline then
tell application "GrowlHelperApp"
register as application appName all notifications allNotificationsList default notifications defaultNotificationsList icon of application appName
notify with name "Buddy went offline" title whoDidIt application name appName description "went offline" image buddyIcon
end tell
else if status of theBuddy is equal to idle then
tell application "GrowlHelperApp"
notify with name "Buddy went idle" title whoDidIt application name appName description "is idle" image buddyIcon
end tell
else if status of theBuddy is equal to away then
tell application "GrowlHelperApp"
notify with name "Buddy went away" title whoDidIt application name appName description "is away" image buddyIcon
end tell
end if
end buddy became unavailable

on message received message from theBuddy for textChat
set appName to "iChat"
set whoDidIt to full name of theBuddy
set buddyIcon to image of theBuddy
set the allNotificationsList to ¬
{"Buddy became available", "Buddy went offline", "Buddy went idle", "Buddy went away", "Message received"}
set the defaultNotificationsList to ¬
{"Buddy became available", "Buddy went offline", "Buddy went idle", "Buddy went away"}
tell application "GrowlHelperApp"
register as application appName all notifications allNotificationsList default notifications defaultNotificationsList icon of application appName
notify with name "Message received" title whoDidIt application name appName description message image buddyIcon
end tell
end message received

end using terms from

 

[ntrigue]

^Good. God. Just paste into Terminal

 

[adm58]

^Good. God. Just paste into Terminal

What?

 

[ntrigue]

What?

I was complimenting you on a great job!

 

[kanenas]

Another script

Another poster had a similar question (zhe asked just about buddy avail & unavail events). Before I found this thread, I wrote a script (not reproduced here). If you want an alternative, check it out. If you have suggestions for my script, please head on over to the other thread and post them.

 

[applenewbie2008]

When you click on the growl window that shows up when running the script above it doesn't take you to the chat window like in adium. Is there anyway to be able to do this?

 

[applefan69]

I love growl so much

honestly it surprises me apple hasnt done work with the growl team to make growl an actual part of OS X... and dont work to make it universal and simple for ANY developer (maybe through Apples SDK) to plug their application into growl

 

[kanenas]

When you click on the growl window that shows up when running the script above it doesn't take you to the chat window like in adium. Is there anyway to be able to do this?

The click callback isn't exposed via applescript, so nope.

 

[kakashiyp]

Hi I tried to post teh script and am getting an error message when i turned on the script for message received. GrowlHelperApp got an error: Can’t make missing value into type Image

sorry i'm new to this stuff

 

[kanenas]

Chax

Hi I tried to post teh script and am getting an error message when i turned on the script for message received. GrowlHelperApp got an error: Can’t make missing value into type Image

Change all the "notify ..." lines to

try
  notify with name [name] title whoDidIt application name appName description [descr] image buddyIcon
on error
  notify with name [name] title whoDidIt application name appName description [descr]
end

Note you need to replace "[name]" and "[description]" with the values from each line you replace.

You could also try Chax for a more featureful iChat extension.

 

[kakashiyp]

thanks

 

[jongriff]

This isn't the best app in the world but does what you are asking for

http://growlichat.com/download.php

 

[quad64bit]

Chax does it

Just incase anyone still finds this thread looking for an answer to this question, Chax adds this support to ichat. Just google Chax.

 

[jamescoulee]

Since neither these applescripts, growlichat nor chax are working on Lion, here's a pair of applescripts that work for Growl and Auto-Resizing Buddy Lists:
http://tiagodovale.deviantart.com/art/Chax-alternative-for-iChat-Growl-and-Auto-Resize-284084652