Here we have two scripts that take your input and display a Large Type Message or a Growl Message after a given time.
The original script can be found in this thread.
The naming is a little confusing so i start a new topic. Below are the two scripts. One is for Large Type the other one is for Growl.
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-- Display Alert 1.0 for LB
-- this script displays a large typed message after a given delay time
--
-- originally written by ludwigschubert http://forums.obdev.at/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=615
-- modified by Zettt (http://www.zettt.de) at 2009-05-04
--
-- Usage: Call LaunchBar, Hit Space, Input your message and provied your delay time at the end in "3s", "1m" or "2d" (without quotes)
-- Example: "This is an example message 2s" (without quotes)
-- take string from LaunchBar
on handle_string(message)
set future_message to message as text
tell application "LaunchBar"
-- we don't need to talk with LaunchBar from here. But it's nice to have a LaunchBar icon in the following dialogs. :)
-- how much delay do we need?
-- set delay_time to my delay_dialog()
set delay_word to last word of message
-- Encode message for URL; strip delay time
do shell script "/usr/bin/python -c 'import sys, urllib; print urllib.quote(unicode(sys.argv[1], \"utf8\"))' " & quoted form of (texts 1 thru ((length of message) - ((length of delay_word) + 1)) of message)
set delay_time to result
-- Determine seconds, minutes, hours or days
set time_multiplier to 1
if last character of delay_word = "m" then set time_multiplier to 60
if last character of delay_word = "h" then set time_multiplier to 60 * 60
if last character of delay_word = "d" then set time_multiplier to 60 * 60 * 24
set delay_value to texts 1 thru ((length of delay_word) - 1) of delay_word
-- delay the message
delay delay_value * time_multiplier
-- display it in large type
display in large type future_message
end tell
end handle_string
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-- written by Zettt (http://www.zettt.de) at 2009-04-28
-- modified version of http://forums.obdev.at/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=615 to work with Growl
-- this script display a growl message after a given delay time
--
-- Usage: Call LaunchBar, Hit Space, Input your message and provied your delay time at the end in "3s", "1m" or "2d" (without quotes)
-- Example: "This is an example message 2s" (without quotes)
-- take string from LaunchBar
on handle_string(message)
set future_message to message as text
-- how much delay do we need?
set delay_word to last word of message
tell application "LaunchBar"
-- Encode message for URL; strip delay time
do shell script "/usr/bin/python -c 'import sys, urllib; print urllib.quote(unicode(sys.argv[1], \"utf8\"))' " & quoted form of (texts 1 thru ((length of message) - ((length of delay_word) + 1)) of message)
set delay_time to result
-- Determine seconds, minutes, hours or days
set time_multiplier to 1
if last character of delay_word = "m" then set time_multiplier to 60
if last character of delay_word = "h" then set time_multiplier to 60 * 60
if last character of delay_word = "d" then set time_multiplier to 60 * 60 * 24
set delay_value to texts 1 thru ((length of delay_word) - 1) of delay_word
end tell
-- delay the message
delay delay_value * time_multiplier
-- display growl message
my growlRegister()
my growlNotify("LaunchBar", future_message)
end handle_string
-- additional scripting for Growlnotification
using terms from application "GrowlHelperApp"
on growlRegister()
tell application "GrowlHelperApp"
register as application "LaunchBar" all notifications {"Message from the past"} default notifications {"Message from the past"} icon of application "LaunchBar.app"
end tell
end growlRegister
on growlNotify(grrTitle, grrDescription)
tell application "GrowlHelperApp"
notify with name "Message from the past" title grrTitle description grrDescription application name "LaunchBar"
end tell
end growlNotify
end using terms from
Please make sure that you create to plist files with the same name as the scripts with the following conent:
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{
InputTypes = (
NSStringPboardType
);
RunInBackground = YES;
}
Future updates to the scripts will be posted here. Thanks
