Unofficial Google Wave Notifier for mac

This is a Mac OS X menubar notification application. It notifies unread blips (messages) at your account of Google Wave, like (official) Google Notifier does for GMail and Calender.

Supported environments

• Mac OS X Leopard (intel and ppc) # my own platforms, so I test on them.
• Mac OS X Snow Leopard (32bit and 64bit) # I have a report from my friend.

Acknowledgement

I learned how to get inbox information at wave.google.com from "Google Wave Add-on for Firefox" by Chad Smith http://thatsmith.com/2009/10/google-wave-add-on-for-firefox I thank him.

Notable Contributors

• Eugene Gordin - suggested use of Sparkle, an app auto update framework https://wave.google.com/wave/#restored:wave:googlewave.com!w%252BZQ-P_AMqB

• Jeff Leung - sent met pair of wave icons, blue and dark gray

• w31rd0 - encourage me to implement web proxy support and test it http://github.com/hiroshi/Unofficial-Google-Wave-Notifier/issues/#issue/10 https://wave.google.com/wave/#restored:wave:googlewave.com!w%252BbedDPRsTA

• Mike Roest - implemented Growl support http://github.com/hiroshi/Unofficial-Google-Wave-Notifier/issues#issue/6 https://wave.google.com/wave/#restored:wave:googlewave.com!w%252BJZsdijXOA

Notes for feature compatibility against Google Wave

If they change the interface I use to access Google Wave, this app will fail.

Anatomy (for Developer)

The outer part of the application is written in Objective-C using Cocoa Framework as usual. However, the inner part which accessing to the Google Wave is written in Ruby. I call the former "the app" and the later "the script".

The app periodically executes the script as a subprocess, like a following diagram.

1. app --(execute subprocess)--> script --(https request)--> Google Wave
2. app <--(plist via pipe)-- script <--(html including json via https response)-- Google Wave That' it.

I mean that the core part is written in ruby, so you can use it for windows or other (if ruby itself is not a problem).

Note for you, a developer

• To debug proxy settings, you may use http://drikin.com/dolipo/

License (MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2009 Hiroshi Saito

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

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