Snarl: A Growl-like notification system for Squeak Smalltalk

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Thu, 24 December 2009

I’ve just released Snarl, a Growl-like notification system for Squeak. To use it,

Snarl label: 'Something happened'
      body: 'What could it have been?'

I’ve recorded a quick demo:

(Also available on youtube and on vimeo. My apologies for the blurriness.)

The code is three classes: one tiny convenience class, Snarl; one TextMorph subclass, which does almost all the work; and one helper TextAttribute subclass, for fading out coloured text along with the rest of each notification. In total, it’s 205 lines of text, including documentation.