[ann] Snarl: Windows gets a Growl-like app!

Saw this posted on winmatrix and thought you guys and girls might be interested. A Growl-like (http://growl.info/) application for windows has been released called Snarl.

http://k23productions.com/haiku/snarl.html

From the website;

Unlike other forms of notification, Snarl does not hijack the current focused window, nor does it force the taskbar to be visible. Notifications can either be cancelled by clicking on them, or left to disappear automatically if ignored for a period of time.

Snarl can display many message at any one time; new messages are simply displayed beneath existing ones. The application displaying the message can also update the content at any time, remove the message, or specify an icon to be displayed.

Best of all, developers of other applications can include Snarl support in their applications with almost no effort at all - Snarl uses Windows window messaging functionality to show and hide notifications, making it accessible to any programming language from pure C to Visual Basic or .net-based environments.>

It would be great to see our community apps like Avedesk etc, to link in with this program...

#320420

Looks very interesting...

#320429

It definitely is interesting...but there's a somewhat confusing options interface. Plus, not many other programs use it at the moment, so it isn't too much use.

I'm keeping the installer though, in case it becomes more widespread .

Kudos to the developer for a nice job anyway.

-NC

#320558

omg, this is going to be just great to test and see what this puppy can do, thanks for posting :-)

#320567

Gizads!!! Some more nifty possibilities with this. Cool fade away effect too.

#320575

Just downloaded this and tried the snarltunes notifier. But there's no readme in the installer and no instructions on the web that I can find....does anyone know how to change the position of the notification window that pops up? I tried a CTRL-F10 which brings up the Snarl window....but can't see any way to set any options except "quit" the app.

#347253

Very cool program indeed. This is what I wish Judge's sysstats controller could do with iTunes. I guess it doesn't hurt to have both of these running. Maybe we can get some Miranda support going as well.

#347272

Hiub,

HAve you been able to move the snarl windows around? change where they pop up? if so, how?

#347324

it will be interresting if someone writes all the programs compatible with snarl ...

#348323

From what I can tell, Snarl is on life support (if not dead)....no answers to any emails to addresses on the web site, no forum posts since December, and no one in the community seems to know how to do any configuration of the itunes add-in. Too bad...it seemed promising.

#353046

Yeah too bad... looked like a cool app. I really didn't mess around with it long enough so no I don't know how. Sorry.

#353890

Hmm, if it would have a COM automation interface... Somebody asked for notifications in my Digital Clock... Thank you, Googleplex!

#355104

Not to try to Resurrect a dead thread (thread-necromancy), but, there has been a new release of Snarl, and the changes are pretty huge.

Snarl R1.6 (beta)

- This is a Beta. It's therefore not fully tested and parts may be incomplete

- It uses a new release of our 'melon' toolkit. This will be installed during the Snarl installation (you'll be prompted), however testing has shown sometimes problems occur with the melon installation (let me know if this happens to you)

- You will need adminstrator rights to install Snarl but not to run it (let me know if this is not the case)

- The SnarlClock and SnarlTray extensions are particularly new and therefore the least tested.

- The SnarlClock extension should show a Snarl message on the hour

- The SnarlTray extension should pipe SysTray balloons to Snarl

- The 'Alerts' list box is not yet fully operational

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