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Aug 26Sending Growl Notifications With Flex Via AIR & Merapi

The other day, I showed you how to talk to a Garmin GPS with Flex (AIR), Java, and Merapi. Well, today I'm back to talk to you about how to leverage the Java APIs to the growl notification service via Merapi and Flex. Growl is a notification service for OS X that a lot of applications are starting to make use of these days. They have a SDK which includes Java libraries. Using Merapi, you can leverage these libraries and send true Growl notifications directly from AIR applications. Enjoy the screencast below and feel free to drop me a line in the comments if you have any questions.

Comments

Nice example. I'll definitely be playing around with that.

Ryan Campbell
08/26/08 12:01 PM

That's really cool, thanks!

Rob
10/06/08 5:38 AM