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Sending Growl Notifications With Flex Via AIR & Merapi

August 26, 2008 · 3 Comments

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.

Tags: Merapi · Java · Flex · General · Adobe · Universal Mind · AIR

3 responses so far ↓

  • 1 Ryan Campbell // Aug 26, 2008 at 12:01 PM

    Nice example. I'll definitely be playing around with that.
  • 2 Rob // Oct 6, 2008 at 5:38 AM

    That's really cool, thanks!
  • 3 Ranadheer Singh // Feb 7, 2009 at 7:57 AM

    Hi,<br /><br />i need help in merapi. i am using this in my application. some times i am getting error to start the server. error&quot;java.net.BindException: Address already in use: JVM_Bind&quot;. how to close the already opened port. Please help.<br /><br />Thank you,<br />Ranadheer.

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