I took some time this afternoon to craft together JaikuGrowler, an AppleScript that uses Growl to alert you every time you or any of your contacts emits something into Jaiku:
The script, which you can grab here, takes advantage of Jaiku’s new RSS feed capabilities. I created it as a sort of poor man’s Twitterific.
I am Peter Rukavina and this is my blog. I am a writer, printer and developer.
To learn more about me, read my /now, look at my bio, read presentations and speeches I’ve written, listen to audio I’ve produced, see the places I’ve been, or get in touch (peter@rukavina.net is the quickest way).
Mailing Address
100 Prince Street
Charlottetown, PE
Canada, C1A 4R4
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With my Widget seemingly out of perpetual order, I’m going to give this a shot :)
I’m afraid I’m running into problems straight away: I’m not running as an administrator normally, so the script can’t write to /Library/Application Support/… Perhaps you could use the local Library directory? That would also make it possible to use the script with multiple users on the same machine.
Thanks for pointing out that problem, Mark.
I’ve released a new version, with settings stored in the user’s own Library (~/Library/Application Support/Jaiku).
I also fixed a couple of bugs that caused problems on start-up, and caused the Jaiku settings to not be properly saved.
I don’t seem to be able to save the script, it gives a syntax error. How’s it behaving on your end?
Life is never easy. Looks like the “line continuation” characters aren’t translating well on the journey from Script Editor to Text File to SVN file. I’ll figure out a solution. In the meantime you could search and replace for all occurrences of Á and replace with the character you get from Option + l (lower case L).
That doesn’t seem to be it, they show up correctly now but I still get the “Invalid date and time” syntax error. It’s for this line:
tell me to set the_lastdate to date “Saturday, January 1, 2000 12:00:00 AM”
Hmmm, that’s interesting Mark. No matter what format I put in that line for a hard-coded date, it always reformats (on compile) to what I assume is the long-format date on my system. I’m wondering if this is causing problems when the long-format date is different and/or when the system language is different.
I’m localized to the Netherlands, but using the English language.
Hi Peter, thanks for all the cool Jaiku toys. I have the same problem as Mark. Any thoughts on a fix?
Heh, tweaking that line to the date format I have in my international preferences solves the issue. But it still throws out a similar error when running… Definitely date related though.