Comments on: Growl and Dock Badges for Google Voice on Fluid

By: Luke

Luke — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 08:18:46 +0000

Thanks for the update after the recent outage. Your work is greatly appreciated.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 03:09:03 +0000

Is there a way for this script to show the contents of the SMS in a growl notification?

By: John

John — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 20:44:51 +0000

any update on the auto refresh? i’d really like to use this along with prowl to ditch my text messaging plan

By: Patrick

Patrick — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 03:43:57 +0000

Thanks, morouxshi. I agree that this becomes significantly more useful when the notifications are instantaneous. If google’s site isn’t updated in real time, then I guess the script will have to refresh the page if the fluid app is to push messages quickly.

By: golm

golm — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 19:39:59 +0000

@morouxshi, cool thanks for the reply. I must have done something else to lock my account. Great script… I love that I found it after I had already created a fluid app for GV.

By: morouxshi

morouxshi — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 18:23:46 +0000

@golm : The doBadgeUpdates only rechecks the dom to see if there are any changes they do not make a call to Google’s servers and they do not have a timeout because they keep happening indefinitely every time the script ends. If you have the version that does the auto-refresh, then yes, that would be problematic if you refresh the page every half a second, but that is not the case on that script either because as you could see it does the refresh on a different loop. I’m sorry that your account got locked but I have been using the script since two weeks before I even wrote this post and I have had no problems whatsoever. Look at the code there is no Google call.

@everyone : I’ve been very busy and have therefore not been able to really fix the refresh issue. There is a version that has refresh on the userscripts website, but it does not have the hooks to see if you are writing a message so that it does not try and refresh from under you. Additionally (and to me this is a big one) it is not able to save message counts across refreshes, therefore the growl notification reads “x items” not “x voicemails” or “x sms messages” which is annoying to me. Hopefully I’ll get to it sometime this week in the meantime my updates have been happening every 5-10 minutes automatically by Google which is why I never thought it was a problem.

By: golm

golm — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 17:57:46 +0000

Pretty sure this caused my google account to get locked.

doBadgeUpdates(5000);
function doBadgeUpdates(timeout) {
…
setTimeout(doBadgeUpdates, timeout);
}

The first time through, timeout is 5000. But the setTimeout call does not contain a closure or parameters, just a says wait 5000, then call doBadgeUpdates, and no parameter. So the second time through, timeout=”, and then the loop happens without delay. Then google gets mad.

Changed it to:

doBadgeUpdates();

function doBadgeUpdates() {
…
setTimeout(doBadgeUpdates, 10000);
}

Or you could use a global for the timeout, but why bother.

By: 7 Steps to using Google Voice on your Desktop (Mac) : gavin baker

7 Steps to using Google Voice on your Desktop (Mac) : gavin baker — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 21:43:38 +0000

[...] created the script to make this Google Voice magic happen, all of this information is adapted from his original post here. If you’re already familiar with adding userscripts to Fluid apps you can get the script here [...]

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Google Voice Applications & Scripts | Ninja Blogging — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 05:11:07 +0000

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By: Nick

Nick — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 20:49:22 +0000

Awesome script. Works amazing. I found this icon pack over at deviantART that tempest put together (Simply Google Icon Collection). I like it better than the flickr hosted one.

you can download the whole thing here:
http://tempest.deviantart.com/art/Simply-Google-Icon-Collection-117952063

I converted the google voice icon to icns and rsrc to easily change the application icon, zipped em, and put them on dropbox. enjoy.
http://files.getdropbox.com/u/1084227/GVoice_icons.zip