[MacRuby-devel] HotCocoa on_notification Method with Snow Leopard

[Laurent Sansonetti]

Hi Trevor,

Thanks for the report. It's very likely a bug in MacRuby 0.5. If you  
are willing to create a test case that reproduces the problem we can  
then investigate a fix.

Laurent

On Oct 3, 2009, at 4:52 AM, Trevor Hills wrote:

> I have a small MacRuby/HotCocoa application that uses the  
> on_notification method described by Richard Kilmer in his post of  
> Sept 19 2008 http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macruby-devel/2008-September/000539.html
>
> This application worked well under MacRuby 0.4 and Mac OS 10.5. It  
> intercepts Spotify Growl messages to obtain track title and artist  
> information to pass into an AppleScript Studio application I wrote.  
> The MacRuby/HotCocoa app was provided by a friendly software  
> developer, Peter MacRobert, for me since ASS did not have the  
> appropriate inter-process message handling capability.
>
> I upgraded to Snow Leopard and discovered that the app crashed out  
> with MacRuby 0.4. I succeeded in downloading and installing MacRuby  
> 0.5 and now the app loads successfully with no error messages as  
> before under Leopard.
>
> Unfortunately the on_notification code does not get triggered any  
> longer. No error messages, just stubbornly refuses to respond when  
> the Distributed Notifications Center gets the Spotify message. I am  
> able to see that the message is there by firing up Growl which shows  
> the message each time Spotify plays a track.
>
> I'm looking for guidance if anybody has any words of wisdom please?  
> Has something changed under MacOS 10.6.1 to do with the Distributed  
> Notifications Center or is it likely that my re-installation of  
> MacRuby 0.5 is incorrect and I have to do something additional to  
> get the on_notification method re-enabled?
>
> My googling efforts suggest that there are changes in inter-process  
> security with Snow Leopard but I am unable to discover any security  
> violation error messages.
>
> Regards
>
> Trevor Hills
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