![]() ![]() Here’s an example: tell application "FastScripts"ĭisplay message "I drink your milkshake!" at screen position ¬ You can click on the message window to dismiss it manually. “top left”, “center”, “bottom right”) and how many seconds it should remain on screen until dismissing itself. You also get to specify where it should appear (e.g. 2 FastScripts’s message window is a simple, dark, slightly tranclucent HUD-style floating window that accepts a single string as a parameter. I’ve found a good alternative: the “ display message” command from FastScripts, the $15 script menu utility by Daniel Jalkut at Red Sweater Software. ![]() Using Growl just for the occasional message from a script seemed like overkill on my machine Growl typically consumes at least 30 MB of real memory. The one thing I really missed about Growl was using it to display status messages from certain of my own scripts - scripts from which I want to see the results, but which I don’t want to interrupt me with an alert dialog. It ended up I didn’t miss Growl much, and didn’t get around to re-installing it until last week. ![]() When I upgraded to Leopard full-time a few months ago, I started with a clean installation and only added back third-party UI utilities one-by-one, when I actually missed them. Unlike a dialog box alert that (a) pops up in the center of your display and (b) you must dismiss manually, a Growl message can appear off to the side and will disappear on its own after a few seconds, no user action required. Growl is an interesting idea - a system-wide notification system with self-dismissing messages. Using FastScripts as a Lightweight Alternative to Growl Friday, 8 February 2008 ![]()
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