update notify package to use a more cross platform library

social/notify/57-notify.html

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 
-<script type="text/x-red" data-template-name="notify">
+<script type="text/x-red" data-template-name="nnotify">
     <div class="form-row">
         <label for="node-input-title"><i class="fa fa-flag"></i> Title</label>
         <input type="text" id="node-input-title" placeholder="Node-RED">
@@ -10,15 +10,15 @@
     </div>
 </script>
 
-<script type="text/x-red" data-help-name="notify">
+<script type="text/x-red" data-help-name="nnotify">
-    <p>Uses Growl to provide a desktop popup containing the <code>msg.payload</code>. Only useful on the local machine.</p>
+    <p>Uses node-notifier to provide a desktop popup containing the <code>msg.payload</code>. Only useful on the local machine.</p>
-    <p>Optionally uses <code>msg.topic</code> as the title.</p>
+    <p>Optionally uses <code>msg.topic</code> as the title, and <code>msg.icon</code> as the full path to an icon file to display.</p>
-    <p>Uses Growl so should work cross platform but will need pre-reqs installed... see <i><a href="https://npmjs.org/package/growl" target="_new">this link.</a></i></p>
+    <p>Uses node-notifier so should work cross platform but may need to intall pre-reqs... see <i><a href="https://www.npmjs.com/package/node-notifier" target="_new">this link.</a></i></p>
-    <p>If installing on Windows you MUST read the install instructions ... especially the bit about adding growlnotify to your path... or it WILL NOT work.</p>
+    <p>If installing on Windows you MUST read the install instructions...  or it WILL NOT work.</p>
 </script>
 
 <script type="text/javascript">
-    RED.nodes.registerType('notify',{
+    RED.nodes.registerType('nnotify',{
         category: 'output',
         defaults: {
             title: {value:""},
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@
         outputs:0,
         icon: "alert.png",
         align: "right",
+        paletteLabel: "notify",
         label: function() {
             return this.name||this.title||"notify";
         },

social/notify/57-notify.js

@@ -1,26 +1,35 @@
 
 module.exports = function(RED) {
     "use strict";
-    var growl = require('growl');
+    var notifier = require('node-notifier');
-    var imagefile = process.env.NODE_RED_HOME+"/public/node-red.png";
+    var path = require('path');
+    var fs = require('fs');
+    var image = path.join(__dirname, "/node-red.png");
 
     function NotifyNode(n) {
         RED.nodes.createNode(this,n);
         this.title = n.title;
         var node = this;
+        
         node.on("input",function(msg) {
-            var titl = node.title || msg.topic;
+            var title = node.title || msg.topic;
-            if (typeof(msg.payload) == 'object') {
+            if (typeof msg.payload === 'object') {
                 msg.payload = JSON.stringify(msg.payload);
             }
-            if (typeof(titl) != 'undefined') {
+            var icon = image;
-                growl(msg.payload, { title: titl, image: imagefile });
+            if (msg.icon) {
+                if (fs.existsSync(msg.icon)) { icon = msg.icon; }
+                else { node.error("Bad Icon file: "+msg.icon,msg); }
+            }
+            var icon = msg.icon || image;
+            if (typeof(title) !== 'undefined') {
+                notifier.notify({ message:msg.payload, title:title, icon:icon });
             }
             else {
-                growl(msg.payload, { image: imagefile });
+                notifier.notify({ message:msg.payload, icon:imagefile });
             }
         });
     }
 
-    RED.nodes.registerType("notify",NotifyNode);
+    RED.nodes.registerType("nnotify",NotifyNode);
 }

social/notify/package.json

@@ -1,17 +1,17 @@
 {
     "name"          : "node-red-node-notify",
-    "version"       : "0.0.5",
+    "version"       : "0.1.1",
     "description"   : "A Node-RED node to send local popup Notify alerts",
     "dependencies"  : {
-        "growl"   : "1.8.1"
+        "node-notifier" : "5.2.1"
     },
     "repository" : {
         "type":"git",
         "url":"https://github.com/node-red/node-red-nodes.git",
-        "path":"/tree/master/social/growl"
+        "path":"/tree/master/social/notify"
     },
     "license": "Apache-2.0",
-    "keywords": [ "node-red", "growl", "notify"],
+    "keywords": [ "node-red", "notify", "growl"],
     "node-red"      : {
         "nodes"     : {
             "notify": "57-notify.js"