Growl and Folder action problem

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#1

Hi,
Could someone please take a look at the following script and tell this Newbie what I have done wrong.

Thanks in advance.

on adding folder items to this_folder after receiving these_items
tell application “GrowlHelperApp” – ** the daemon that is behind the scenes
– Make a list of all the notification types that this script will ever send:
– ** They really mean “ever” or you’ll have to reregister.
set the allNotificationsList to {“Downloading”}

	-- Make a list of the notifications that will be enabled by default. 
	-- ** We'll see shortly that a note must be enabled and the user can disable it.
	-- Notifications not enabled by default can be enabled later in the 'Applications' tab of the growl prefpane.
	set the enabledNotificationsList to {"Downloading"}
	
	-- Register our script with growl.
	-- You can optionally (as here) set a default icon for this script's notifications.
	-- ** Theoretically, you only have to register once, but there is absolutely no harm in doing
	-- it every time the script runs, <i>i.e.</i>, leaving this line in your script.
	register as application "Downloading" all notifications allNotificationsList default notifications enabledNotificationsList icon of application "Finder"
	
	--	Send a Notification...
	-- This one will appear because it was enabled by default.
	notify with name "Downloading" title "Info :" description "Download In Progress." application name "Downloading"
end tell

end adding folder items to

#2

Welcome Richard,

It is not clear from your post what you want to do or what the problem is. It helps if you put that info in. :slight_smile:

I did notice you are not doing anything with the items being downloaded so I added to the script to display the names of the items.

But Like I said not sure what you goal is?

on adding folder items to this_folder after receiving these_items
	set item_names to ""
	repeat with i from 1 to number of items in these_items
		set this_item to item i of these_items
		tell application "Finder"
			set item_names to item_names & "[ " & displayed name of this_item & " ]" & return as Unicode text
			
		end tell
	end repeat
	tell application "GrowlHelperApp" -- ** the daemon that is behind the scenes
		-- Make a list of all the notification types that this script will ever send: 
		-- ** They really mean "ever" or you'll have to reregister.
		set the allNotificationsList to {"Downloading"}
		
		-- Make a list of the notifications that will be enabled by default. 
		-- ** We'll see shortly that a note must be enabled and the user can disable it.
		-- Notifications not enabled by default can be enabled later in the 'Applications' tab of the growl prefpane.
		set the enabledNotificationsList to {"Downloading"}
		
		-- Register our script with growl.
		-- You can optionally (as here) set a default icon for this script's notifications.
		-- ** Theoretically, you only have to register once, but there is absolutely no harm in doing
		-- it every time the script runs, <i>i.e.</i>, leaving this line in your script.
		register as application "Downloading" all notifications allNotificationsList default notifications enabledNotificationsList icon of application "Finder"
		
		--    Send a Notification...
		-- This one will appear because it was enabled by default.
		notify with name "Downloading" title "Info :" description item_names application name "Downloading"
	end tell
end adding folder items to
#3

Hi,

Sorry - I was soooooo tired and frustrated last night that I forgot to explain what I was trying to achieve.

What I want to do is :

When I download a file to the downloads folder/stack in leopard, I want “Growl” to display a notice informing me that the download is complete.

Sounds simple but my script doesn’t seem to do anything ???

Thanks.

#4

Have a look in the Growl extras folder

#5

Thanks, BUT, GrowlSafari is not compatible with Leopard, so that solution is out of the question - that’s why I need to do it via Applescript and Folder Actions.