[MacRuby-devel] [MacRuby] #391: HotCocoa on_notification method stopped functioning in MacRuby 0.5 under Snow Leopard

[MacRuby]

#391: HotCocoa on_notification method stopped functioning in MacRuby 0.5 under
Snow Leopard
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 Reporter:  trevor@…                  |       Owner:  lsansonetti@…           
     Type:  defect                    |      Status:  new                     
 Priority:  blocker                   |   Milestone:                          
Component:  MacRuby                   |    Keywords:  HotCocoa on_notification
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 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 via a small window that it
 creates. 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. The script for the app is
 attached.

 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.

 Under Mac OS 10.5, it was necessary to have Growl stopped for this app to
 be able to intercept the message coming out of Spotify destined for the
 Growl alert.

 I'm afraid I am not familiar with what is required to set up a test case.
 All I can do is describe the situation. I believe that Spotify is now
 available in the USA, it's a music streaming application (excellent btw,
 if you're not familiar). When running a Spotify session every time a track
 is launched it sends a message to the Distributed Notifications Center
 containing the Track Artist  & Title information, if the system has Growl
 installed and configured for Spotify, a Growl alert will appear to the
 configured spec in Growl. If my MacRuby script is running (and, under
 10.5, Growl is turned off) it will intercept the Spotify message and show
 the Artist and track name in the two text fields of the window that it
 opens.

 This may sound crazy to you and it would take a while to explain why I
 have this application.  Briefly, it's used by an Applescript Studio App
 that I wrote (hobby only, not commercial) which controls Spotify and hides
 the windows to play a "Beat the Intro" game for competing teams. The
 MacRuby window is hidden and is used to pass the track details from
 Spotify to the ASS application.

 I'm sure that there would be a much easier way to test the HotCocoa
 on_notification method than setting up a test with my script and using
 Spotify. But I'm afraid I do not know how to do that.

 Regards

 Trevor Hills

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