Groovie

Please note: You will need to install the latest svn of Growl, the PyObjC bridge, and have Xcode 1.5 to get this working. Everything in ALL_CAPS should be changed as needed, this also assumes you want to use icons and they’re in a myIcons dir.

#!/usr/bin/python

import Growl
import SimpleXMLRPCServer
from AppKit import NSImage
import sys, os.path

iconPath = 'myIcons/'
Icons = { 'MESSAGE_1' : 'MESSAGE_1.tiff', \
          'MESSAGE_2' : 'MESSAGE_2.tiff' }

class MemberFunctions:
    def __init__(self,Icons):
        gn = Growl.GrowlNotifier()
        gn.applicationName = 'YOUR_APP_NAME'
        gn.applicationIcon = Icons['appIcon']
        gn.notifications = ['MESSAGE_1','MESSAGE_2']
        gn.register()
        self.gn = gn
        self.Icons = Icons

    def notify(self, ntype, title, description, sticky):
        gn = self.gn
        Icons = self.Icons
        nIcon = Icons['appIcon']
        if ntype == 'MESSAGE_1':
            nIcon = Icons['MESSAGE_1']
        elif ntype == 'MESSAGE_2':
            nIcon = Icons['MESSAGE_2']
        gn.notify(noteType=ntype,title=title,description=description,
            icon=nIcon, sticky=sticky)
        return 1

def loadIcons(icons):
    global iconPath
    for icon in icons.keys():
        filename = icons[icon]
        nImagePath = os.path.abspath(iconPath+filename)
        nIcon = NSImage.alloc().initWithContentsOfFile_(nImagePath).autorelease()
        if not nIcon:
            sys.stderr.write("Couldn't load file %s\n" % nImagePath)
        icons[icon] = nIcon
    return icons

Icons = loadIcons(Icons)

# Make our XMLRPC Server, create our instance, and assign it
server = SimpleXMLRPCServer.SimpleXMLRPCServer(("IP_TO_BIND_TO", 7300))
memfun = MemberFunctions(Icons)
server.register_function(memfun.notify)

# Start the server
server.serve_forever()

If you’d like to see a running example of this, check out hellagrowler.py that this example is based heavily on.